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Trump Orders EPA To ‘Zero Out’ Global Warming Programs
dailycaller.com ^ | 3/2/2017 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 03/02/2017 8:03:19 AM PST by rktman

The White House is pushing for significant cuts to EPA programs and staff levels, giving a glimpse of how the Trump administration plans on devolving more control to the states.

The budget plan sent from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to EPA leadership calls for eliminating dozens of programs, including at least 16 that have to do with global warming and implementing former President Barack Obama’s climate agenda.

OMB also requested a 30 percent cut in grants to states and a 20 percent reduction in EPA’s workforce through buy-outs and layoffs. In total, President Donald Trump is calling for a roughly 25 percent cut to EPA’s budget — about $2 billion.

The cuts are laid out in a letter sent by William Becker, the executive director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA), to his group’s member state and local regulators. Becker said NACAA received the “pass back” budget information sent from OMG to EPA Monday, according to InsideEPA.

"....EPA union leaders are hemming and hawing about cutting staffing levels".

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: ecowankers; epa; fakescience; globalwarming
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BOOM! Sound of ecowanker heads 'splodin'. Winning is awesome. I think the letter was from OMB, not OMG! Then there's the 'epa union'. WTH?
1 posted on 03/02/2017 8:03:19 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

Good, now all the focus moves away from Sessions.


2 posted on 03/02/2017 8:05:00 AM PST by struggle (The)
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To: struggle

Nice use of the vernacular: Ø-out!

Very fitting.


3 posted on 03/02/2017 8:05:42 AM PST by C210N
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To: rktman

MAN OH MAN! Fricken fantastic!


4 posted on 03/02/2017 8:06:21 AM PST by Ladysforest (Racism, misogyny, bigotry, xenophobia and vulgarity - with just a smattering of threats and violence)
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To: rktman

We went from Obama the global-warming-marxist-muslim-transgender-moron-puppet-kenyan... to Trump, the first president to actually CARE about America since Ronald Reagan.

To say the difference is night and day is to elevate the night/day difference to a cosmic level.

The difference between obozo and Trump is cosmic.


5 posted on 03/02/2017 8:09:43 AM PST by samtheman (http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3524434/posts)
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To: Ladysforest

Several EPA liberals have said they would slow things down and not totally comply with that type of order...

If they don’t not immediately stop, Trump should fire them on the spot and reduce the EPA to maybe 10 people...


6 posted on 03/02/2017 8:09:55 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: JBW1949

Actually, all he’d have to do is take down their telephones and internet capability, and they’d just be standing there for eight hours a day. That accomplishes everything necessary. They would all start to hand out resumes and pursue other jobs.


7 posted on 03/02/2017 8:12:14 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: JBW1949

That will slow them down quite a bit. Being out of a job that is.


8 posted on 03/02/2017 8:12:36 AM PST by Leep (Cyclops Network News (CNN). The Most Trusted Source Of Fake News.)
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To: rktman
about $2 billion.

It's a start ...

9 posted on 03/02/2017 8:14:08 AM PST by NorthMountain (CNN is VERY Fake News)
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To: JBW1949

Then they might steal ALL of the keys off of the keyboards in retaliation.

I bet when they get fired they all go into a huddle in obamas DC digs.


10 posted on 03/02/2017 8:14:56 AM PST by Ladysforest (Racism, misogyny, bigotry, xenophobia and vulgarity - with just a smattering of threats and violence)
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To: pepsionice

That’s what most of them do anyway...Just stand around all day and collect our money...

That and look at porn on government time and computers...


11 posted on 03/02/2017 8:15:15 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: JBW1949

Once the President signs the executive order eliminating the program, the EPA is without any agency authority to act. The legal term for the agency attempting to act without the authority to do so is “ultra vires.” Any person subject to an “order” or regulation attempting to carry out that program is not legally required to abide by it.


12 posted on 03/02/2017 8:17:19 AM PST by henkster
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To: rktman

It’s been a good month....


13 posted on 03/02/2017 8:21:01 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: rktman

Good, Now announce Available Grants to Debunk Man Made Global Warming.


14 posted on 03/02/2017 8:21:38 AM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: NorthMountain; ExTexasRedhead

“about $2 billion.
It’s a start ... “

But think also of the substantial reductions in costs to our people and our businesses. I will bet you those savings will be in the trillions.


15 posted on 03/02/2017 8:27:32 AM PST by vette6387
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To: JBW1949

That’s what most of them do anyway...Just stand around all day and collect our money...

That and look at porn on government time and computers...


We would all be much better off if that is what most at the EPA actually did. But they do much worse. They work very hard at destoying the productive capacity of America.

Much better if they did nothing or watch porn.


16 posted on 03/02/2017 8:27:42 AM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: rktman

Have the federal marshals physically remove the managers first (no union protection for them)—and take away their physical and computer access.

After that the cuts should proceed very smoothly...


17 posted on 03/02/2017 8:45:20 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: rktman

A good start.


18 posted on 03/02/2017 8:58:22 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: JBW1949

Rollback all EPA regs to say 1995. Dismantle the EPA completely in the next 6 months. Any new regulations would have to pass through congress.

Get Carly to come in and start dismantling the EPA and other departments one by one, she would be great at that!


19 posted on 03/02/2017 9:19:09 AM PST by bigtoona (Make America Great Again! America First! Th)
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To: henkster

[[Any person subject to an “order” or regulation attempting to carry out that program is not legally required to abide by it.]]

That’s a little confusing- It seems liek you are saying that the EPA are under no obligation legally to comply with his order?


20 posted on 03/02/2017 9:19:24 AM PST by Bob434
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