Posted on 01/27/2017 8:36:57 AM PST by rktman
The former leader of President Donald Trump’s EPA transition team said Thursday he expects the president to slash the agency’s budget and staff.
Myron Ebell, the director of the Center for Energy at free market group Competitive Enterprise Institute, told reporters that Trump is considering reducing by magnitudes the agency’s workforce. It currently stands at 15,000 employees nationwide.
“Let’s aim for half and see how it works out, and then maybe we’ll want to go further,” Ebell said, referring to his wish to see the EPA slashed by at least half. He left Trump’s transition team last week, but was at one time on the president’s short list to head the agency.
Half of the EPA’s budget is transferred to state and local areas to update infrastructure projects and environmental cleanup efforts. Ebell, who is a long-time EPA critic and climate skeptic, said the cuts would likely fall on the remaining half of the agency’s budget, which supports a portion of federal employees.
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In half? Well that is a good start.
Hopefully with a chainsaw.
Dear Mr Trump,
Kill it while you can. Richard Nixon signed it into law to appease the liberals of his time, and it was a monumental mistake. Again, kill it while you can.
SB
Excellent!
50% a year for the next four years, sounds about right.
FUN-EMPLOYMENT
Let’s see if the Left still finds the term cute.
Only half?
How about 11/12ths?
too little- 13/14’ths would be much better
It is a good start. This agency should not even exist.
The EPA was brought into being by Nixon using an Executive Order, I assume it can be taken out of existence by one.
Of course the Liberals would go nuts.
Back then I'd be on the road from college (Murray, KY) to my home in Indiana. I had to pass through Louisville and always knew when I was getting close because my eyes started to burn. I could stand on the sidewalk in Louisville in the summer and not be able to see two blocks away because of the pollution.
I think the EPA accomplished the desired effect initially but ran out of legitimate reasons for their existence. But make no mistake, they accomplished some good under Nixon. Subsequently they just became the enforcement arm of whatever president was in office.
They've outlived their usefulness and need to be eliminated, just like many other alphabet agencies.
Americans need work
to keep them free.
Globalism hurts
both you and me.
Protectionism is great
try it and see.
Burmashave
Using common core math, that would be 200% right?
Agree. More to do, though.
Just fire the ones registered as Democrat.................
“... would go nuts”?
Be still my beating heart.
14/13ths would be optimal. Get the missing 13th from ATF.
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