Posted on 04/01/2025 5:32:49 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is canceling a year-old museum dedicated to the EPA’s history — citing its $315-per-visitor cost to operate.
The museum is located on the ground floor of the environmental agency, but recorded very little foot traffic, despite its prime location just a block north of the Smithsonian’s Natural History and American History museums on the National Mall.
“The scarcely visited museum cost a whopping $4 million taxpayer dollars to build in accordance with Smithsonian standards and more than $600,000 annually to operate,” an EPA official said.
“It had less than 2,000 external visitors between May 2024-February 2025 and while the museum was free, the cost to taxpayers per external visitor amounted to nearly $315 per person.”
The EPA opened the attraction in unused office space after Trump appointees axed a prior Obama-era museum in an even less-trafficked spot nearby during the Republican’s first term.
Although the location was ideal for a museum, it wasn’t obvious to would-be visitors that it was even there, meaning that tourists were unlikely to enter its heavy doors without specifically seeking out the visit. Sometimes people would enter the doors mistakenly thinking it was the EPA’s offices.
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Go, Zeldin!
Propaganda can be expensive.
It was tiny, poorly assembled, and had no real purpose. Someone made money but you could see it in the displays that looked like a fifth grade teacher made them for a class room bulletin board. Who ever did it—had no background in museum work.
Closing a self-gratification museum with no public purpose of an agency exercising regulatory overreach in violation of the Constitution.
Ok. /s
Now let’s set about reversing all the damaging regulations, shall we, Mr. Zeldin? Or this will quickly look like more self-gratification.
So basically grift, a back door way to pay off someone.
It just goes to show they were getting so much money they had to come up with some way to spend it. Even something as idiotic as this. I get madder & madder at our senators & congressmen who were supposed to be doing “oversight.” Just criminal what has been going on.
Something to put in Hussein’s Chicago monstrosity.
Guaranteed.
A forensic accounting job right there.
EPA Museum
The government is awash in money, drowning in excess funds. Nothing a 10% flat tax and a balanced budget law wouldn’t solve immediately.
The idea that there should be museums dedicated to federal departments is the height of an imperial government. That’s like saying there should be a museum to my local auto mechanic. Government agencies are not special.
NFN but the hung ceiling almost seems like the worst part.
It looks like a job fair.
Another NGO trough for the hungry rats to feed upon, check the bank accounts and salaries of those overseeing this empty pit
from what I can tell, the story would be adequately told on an internet site.
Also, hard to compete with the Smithsonian.
I will admit there was a time and purpose for EPA, then in morphed into something beyond the original problem. There needs to be a life to these agency’s. Thank you trump for closing things down.
the other federal agency function site is interesting. There is a web in the deep state that is hard to see sometimes. it is ALL interrelated.
Far too expensive in this case.
It would have been better attended if the museum documented how tax payer dollars flowed to NGOs spreading Democrat patronage to fund their election infrastructure. Trillions of dollars have been wasted by the EPA. Despicable.
Not “special” but “criminal”. let’s see some arrests and handcuffs.
Good post.
There are a lot of other shut-downs and layoffs happening today all over DC.
I am waiting for “official” mass media coverage to post them here.
The rest of this week is going to be impressive.
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