Posted on 01/27/2017 2:09:53 PM PST by PROCON
President Trump is seeking to slash the number of workers at the Environmental Protection Agency by at least half, leaving it significantly gutted as the administration mulls further cuts, the former head of Trump's EPA transition team said Friday.
"Let's aim for half and see how it works out, and then maybe we'll want to go further," Myron Ebell said now that he has returned to his position as director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Ebell left the Trump transition team a week ago.
Ebell told the Associated Press that Trump is likely to seek significant reductions in the agency's 15,000-person work force. Slashing half of the work force would leave 7,500 at the agency, which would dramatically reduce its capacity to move out regulations quickly.
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Already done.
Trump ordered all Government agencies to stop issuing regulations.
He can lay off positions. That’s not “firing” them. That’s a lay off.
“No but I am getting stiff from all the grinning ;-)”
I would be pickin’ and grinnin’...if I knew how to pick anything other than my nose.
Then there’s unemployment and first in li e hiring
obscenely big images make safari freak out. could have been easily resized to reasonable dimensions with tinypic.
Sounds great. But can we get back our toilets, faucets, and shower heads that actually put out a decent flow or water? And while we’re at it, can we get back incandescent light bulbs over 60 watts?
Wow, somebody in govt. besides DoD getting their manning cut? This is a day I thought I’d never see.
“Obama has only been gone a week and he’s already a distant memory.”
Who?
Any agency that is not totally killed off will surge back when a Dem President is in the White House. For heaven’s sake, please, please eliminate stuff totally for once!
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