Endless meetings about meetings. Committees to study the findings of other committees. All while hardworking Americans foot the bill through ever-increasing taxes.
President Donald Trump signaled Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency is about to get a serious haircut.
This from thepatriotjournal.com.
During his first cabinet meeting of his second term, Trump revealed that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin plans to slash a whopping 65% from the agency.
From Daily Caller:
‘I spoke with Lee Zeldin, and he thinks he’s going to be cutting 65 or so percent of the people from environmental, and we’re going to speed up the process too at the same time,’ Trump told reporters on Wednesday. ‘He had a lot of people that weren’t doing their job, they were just obstructionists, and a lot of people that didn’t exist.’
The White House later clarified the 65% figure refers to overall spending cuts at the EPA, which will include staff reductions.
But make no mistake—this is exactly the kind of swamp-draining Trump promised on the campaign trail.
The EPA has ballooned to over 15,000 employees in the 2024 fiscal year. That is a small city of bureaucrats. And apparently, that was not enough! The agency had the audacity to request budget increases to add another 2,023 employees.
More paper-pushers. More red tape. More roadblocks for American businesses trying to create jobs. All while claiming they do not have enough resources to fulfill their basic mission.
This is the administrative state in a nutshell. Create problems, then demand more money to fix the problems they created. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Zeldin has been busy since taking the helm at EPA. He has already uncovered some truly shocking mismanagement of taxpayer funds.
According to reports, Zeldin recently:
[H]ighlighted the most appalling mismanagement of taxpayer funds at the EPA, noting that billions were allegedly sent to left-wing nonprofits, even some linked to Democratic voter mobilization efforts under the previous presidential administration.
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Your tax dollars were not just funding excessive regulations. They were potentially being funneled to partisan political activities disguised as “environmental” initiatives.
DOGE has already identified $65 billion in wasteful and fraudulent spending government-wide. And they are just getting started.
Environmental activists are having conniption fits over the proposed cuts. But what they are not telling We the People:
Trimming bureaucratic fat doesn’t mean abandoning environmental protection.
What they should be doing is focusing on core functions rather than political activism.
A statement from the EPA:
President Trump and EPA Administrator Zeldin are in lock step in creating a more efficient and effective federal government.
Further:
[W]asteful grants [and] organizational improvements to the personnel structure.
Zeldin himself has stated:
We must ensure we are protecting the environment while also protecting our economy.
That is common sense—something Washington has been sorely lacking.
The reality is the EPA, like many federal agencies, has strayed far from its original purpose.
Trump’s approach is refreshingly straightforward:
– identify waste,
– eliminate redundancy, and
– refocus agencies on their core missions.
These initiatives are what a successful business would implement—exactly what our government has needed for decades.
