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EPA Union Bosses Call Trump’s Budget Cuts ‘A Declaration Of War’
Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | February 28, 2017 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 02/28/2017 2:28:15 PM PST by kevcol

“This is a declaration of war, a war on the environment,” John O’Grady, an EPA union leader and agency employee, told E&E news. “It’s a declaration of war against children with asthma, against women of child-bearing age, against the elderly.”

Trump is expected to ask Congress to cut EPA’s budget 24 percent and reduce the agency’s staff by 3,000 employees.

O’Grady works out of EPA’s Chicago office where about 30 agency employees took to the streets to protest the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the agency. The Senate confirmed Pruitt in February.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycallernewsfoundation.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: draintheswamp; epa; governmentemployees; trump; unions; waste
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1 posted on 02/28/2017 2:28:15 PM PST by kevcol
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To: kevcol
EPA employees protesting Pruitt's nomination in Chicago:


2 posted on 02/28/2017 2:29:12 PM PST by kevcol
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Do these jackasses not know they who they are supposed to work for? This is why unionization of federal workers is a disaster.


3 posted on 02/28/2017 2:29:51 PM PST by mort56
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...another Democratic slush fund (dues)


4 posted on 02/28/2017 2:29:56 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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Trump declared war officially once he won the election. This is called “occupation”...


5 posted on 02/28/2017 2:30:38 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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It’s a declaration of war against children with asthma, against women of child-bearing age, against the elderly.”!!!!!!!!...

...against ducks, and geese, and mice, and people with hemorrhoids, those with pimples, fat/skinny/short/tall/ugly/handsome/smart/dumb/rent or own/Star Wars or Star Trek folk!!!!!!

EVERYONE will die!!!!

what a ####.


6 posted on 02/28/2017 2:30:56 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: kevcol

Yawn.


7 posted on 02/28/2017 2:31:03 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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>>>O’Grady works out of EPA’s Chicago office where about 30 agency employees took to the streets to protest the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the agency<<<

Yeah, I remember taking to the Streets when a new Boss that I didn’t like was put in charge of the Department I was working in at a Fortune 500 Company. LOL


8 posted on 02/28/2017 2:32:26 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: kevcol
The REAL protest:


9 posted on 02/28/2017 2:32:33 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Not tired of winning yet!)
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Fire them all and let unemployment sort them out.


10 posted on 02/28/2017 2:33:09 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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They want clean water ? They’re the same buffoons who deliberately turned that river out west orange !


11 posted on 02/28/2017 2:33:51 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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Trump should close as many Chicago offices as possible. Chicago has been padded by Obama. And they are not planning to fix their city or help Trump in any way. Trump should support Federal offices in Wisconsin and Michigan. And he should close them in Illinois.


12 posted on 02/28/2017 2:33:53 PM PST by poinq
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Here’s the problem, in the very title— two words-—

EPA and Union.

No government worker should be unionized, and no govt. agency manager should be a member of a union either. They should not be able to lobby the very body that provides the agency they work for, the taxpayers money for their budget. Period. It is ludicrous that this exists in ANY and EVERY federal govt. agency— IRS agents unionized, FBI unionized, FAA unionized, TSA unionized.... and the list goes on ad infinitum.


13 posted on 02/28/2017 2:33:54 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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The EPA needs a Union?


14 posted on 02/28/2017 2:34:32 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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There shouldn’t even be such a thing as an “EPA union”! (Or any other government union). The government makes the rules for employee protection, it is a conflict of interest among other things.


15 posted on 02/28/2017 2:35:13 PM PST by Drago
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The worthless fed govt employee unions were started with an executive order. An executive order can end them...and should.


16 posted on 02/28/2017 2:35:23 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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These fools don’t realize most of the public view them as worse than useless, bureaucratic appendages. They won’t get any sympathy.


17 posted on 02/28/2017 2:36:03 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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They should have all been fired immediately for Insubordination.

Were they protesting while on the Clock? If so, they should have been fired for defrauding the Taxpayers as well.

No Separation Package, no Unemployment, nothing but a shoe box for their Participation Trophies.


18 posted on 02/28/2017 2:36:19 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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So, you’re declaring war on the lawfully elected and constituted United States Government ?

There’s a word for that. . . . Not sure if it’s the “S” word or the “T” word. . .


19 posted on 02/28/2017 2:36:30 PM PST by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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FUNNY thing is the EPA union works TOTALLY AGAINST labor unions, EPA union is destroying coal minors, construction workers, pipeline workers, THE WALL builders SO WHO does the union choose, decisions, decions!!! The in fighting must be a sight to behold!!! I THOUGHT that the unionization of the public sector was an EO done by Kennedy UNDO IT !


20 posted on 02/28/2017 2:36:56 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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