Success: EPA set to cut nearly 50% of staff in Trump's first term

Washington Examiner ^ | 01/09/2018 | Paul Bedard

[gibsonguy]

A good start, let’s speed it up.

[Buckeye McFrog]

One down and about a hundred agencies to go...

[EQAndyBuzz]

Roll the EPA into the Department of the Interior (70k employees) then cut the entire organization by 50%.

[Right Brother]

Taken together, 47 percent of the EPA will be eligible to retire with full benefits in the next 5 years.

So.....they are currently being paid for essentially doing nothing necessary and will soon be paid for doing nothing. Great.

[taildragger]

Every Day is Christmas.

Do you Freeper's here get that the Paradigm for POTUS's going forward is forever changed?

A businessman looking for permanent solutions rather than band-aid over the festering wound to only go back with substandard dressings and never take the actions to heal it. They never fix anything in the swamp, they keep the thing going and going, like a bad engineering organization where permanent redesign insures dependable employment.

I hate to say it, even V.P. Pence looks too political.

Anyway, Bravo!

[kjam22]

Winning!

[marktwain]

How sweet, retiring with full benefits...on our dime.

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So, you are saying that the contractual agreement with the government workers at the EPA should be ignored?

We need to follow the rule of law.

[TakebackGOP]

No thanks to National Review and Glenn Beck.

[txrefugee]

It’s a good start. This agency is a government-control cancer that has metastasized and almost killed the US economy. Now if every department would do this in 2018, we would see some noticeable improvements in the attitude of the survivors in every agency of government.

[taildragger]

And BLM.... Rename it the Dept of Natural Resource Utilization.

Oh my, buy stock in duck tape manufacturers!

[Leep]

I could probably list about 100 government agencies who need reduced by half.
Or, better completely eliminated.
Many are redundant..if not completely useless.

[Right Brother]

Oh my, buy stock in duck tape manufacturers!

Or goose tape.

[gathersnomoss]

Follow the rules.....and stop this nonsense.

[PapaBear3625]

Well, at least it’s a start. In addition to actual federal employees, the EPA needs to SUBSTANTIALLY reduce contractor staff and grants.

Can Trump or Pruitt clamp down on contractor/grant spending via executive order? No contract or grant to be issued unless approved personally by Pruitt.

[redgolum]

When you see plant startups delayed because of paperwork, this is why.

Heck, I had issues in the past getting a CD approved. One came in a few weeks before the old one ran out.

[gubamyster]

A businessman looking for permanent solutions

That is the key. Trump doesn't care about making decisions based on getting re-elected. He just keeps pushing #MAGA.

[ConservaTexan]

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[EdnaMode]

Excellent. :D

[N. Theknow]

while you are at it, cut the damn gasoline regs that cause prices to jump upwards of $.15 a gallon at the beginning of every month when gasoline formulas change for no reason whatsoever.

[SgtHooper]

Fire the ba$tards before they vest in retirement!