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Official: Trump wants to slash EPA workforce, budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
former head of President Donald
Trump’s transition team at the
Environmental Protection Agency
said Thursday he expects the new
administration to seek significant
budget and staff cuts.
Myron Ebell said in an interview
with The Associated Press that
Trump is likely to seek significant
reductions to the agency’s work-
force — currently about 15,000
employees nationwide. Ebell, who
left the transition team last week,
declined to discuss specific numbers
of EPA staff that could be targeted
for pink slips.
Asked what he would personally
like to see, however, Ebell said
slashing the agency’s size by about
half would be a good start.
“Let’s aim for half and see how
it works out, and then maybe we’ll
want to go further,” said Ebell,
who has returned to his position as
director of the Center for Energy
and Environment at the Competitive
Enterprise Institute.
The conservative think tank
in Washington opposes “glob-
al-warming alarmism” and receives
a portion of its funding from corpora-
tions and individuals that profit from
the continued burning of fossil fuels.
Ebell has long been a vocal critic of
federal environmental regulations,
which he claims are strangling the
nation’s economy and impeding job
growth.
Though he kept specific recom-
mendations he made to the White
House confidential, Ebell suggested
it was reasonable to expect the presi-
dent to seek a cut of about $1 billion
from the EPA’s roughly $8 billion
annual budget.
About half the EPA’s budget
passes through to state and local
governments for infrastructure
projects and environmental cleanup
efforts that Ebell said Trump
supports. He said the cuts would
likely fall on the remaining half
the agency’s budget, which pays
for agency operations and environ-
mental enforcement.
“President Trump said during
the campaign that he would like to
abolish the EPA, or ‘leave a little
bit,”’ Ebell said. “I think the admin-
istration is likely to start proposing
cuts to the 15,000 staff, because
the fact is that a huge amount of the
work of the EPA is actually done by
state agencies. It’s not clear why so
many employees are needed at the
federal level.”
EPA has been roiled by turmoil
during its first week under Trump,
as members of the transition team
issued what it has described as a
temporary freeze on all contract
approvals and grant awards. Trump’s
representatives also instituted a
media blackout, clamping down on
media releases, social media posts
and other external communications
issued by career staff.
AP reported Wednesday that
Trump’s political appointees have
been scrutinizing reports and data
published on the agency’s websites
for potential removal, especially
details of scientific evidence
showing that the Earth’s climate
is warming and man-made carbon
emissions are to blame.
Ebell said Tuesday the purge is
necessary because EPA’s leaders
under President Barack Obama
“politicized” global warming and
allowed activists within the agency
to publish “junk science.”
“Undoubtedly the federal govern-
ment has been staffed with scientists
who believe the global-warming
alarmist agenda,” said Ebell, whose
academic credentials are in philos-
ophy and political theory.
Asked about Ebell’s comments,
former Republican EPA Adminis-
trator William K. Reilly cautioned
calm, saying that often transition
teams have little to do with what
eventually happens in an agency.
“I would tell the EPA staff that,
in my experience, transition teams
often have zero influence,” said
Reilly, who ran the environmental
agency under Republican President
George H.W. Bush. “They shouldn’t
be taken that seriously. They’re just
ideologues. They don’t work for and
are not even known to the incoming
cabinet.”
Trump’s nominee for EPA admin-
istrator, Scott Pruitt, said during his
Senate confirmation hearing last
week that he disagreed with past
statements by the president alleging
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bringing her young
Lucia del Pilar
daughter.
interrupted the
Del Pilar wanted
to impart a simple
audiobook she and
message to her
her mother listened
daughter: “It’s time
to as they cruised
when we need to
across the country in
show that we are
a hybrid Highlander.
going to stand up for
The car speakers
Aisha
played Gail Collins’
Sultan what we believe in.”
Lucia made her
book, “America’s
Parents Talk Back
own signs. One
Women: 400 years
said, “I refuse to be
of Dolls, Drudges,
silent.”
Helpmates and Heroines,”
On the day of the march,
which tells the stories of the
they headed to the Metro
women who have shaped
station at 8 a.m. It was full
our nation.
Lucia spoke up when she of people, and their train
heard Anne Hutchinson’s
only became more packed at
name. She had learned
each stop. They were letting
about Hutchinson in her
people out in waves. The
fifth-grade classroom.
attendant had a bullhorn and
“When we were talking
was chanting, as well.
about the colonies, she
“It was so positive,”
was in the workbook,”
del Pilar said. She and her
Lucia said. “She was one
daughter met the rest of
of the only women on
their group and found a
the list.” Hutchinson was
space near the stage. The
an outspoken leader and
crowd around them swelled.
midwife who challenged the Neither had ever been in a
established New England
crowd so large before. She
Puritan patriarchy. She
watched her daughter listen
was tried, convicted and
to speakers like Madonna,
banished from the colony
Ashley Judd and Gloria
for her religious dissent.
Steinem talk about women’s
It was fitting car talk
rights and equality. There
for a mother and daughter
were times the entire crowd
participating in their first
was dancing, and times they
march, a female-led protest
were pushed together by the
against the new president
crush of people.
of the United States. Jessica
A little before 3 p.m.,
del Pilar, 38, of Clayton,
they started marching
Missouri, took her daughter
toward the White House.
out of school for two days
When some marchers
to travel to the nation’s
chanted, “What does
capital for the Women’s
America look like?” others
March on Washington.
responded, “This is what
Crowd counts estimate
America looks like!”
500,000 people marched
Lucia was taking it all in.
in D.C. — more than triple
Del Pilar’s husband
the estimated attendance
texted her while they
of the inauguration itself.
marched, “I’m so glad you
Nationally, it is said to have
are there.”
been the largest protest in
She said that if she’d
American history, with
been looking for a larger
political scientists estimating community that shared her
between 3.3 to 4.8 million
values of liberty and justice
people participating in
for all, she rediscovered it
towns throughout the
that day. That evening, they
country.
huddled around the table,
But del Pilar had no
amazed at the aerial images
idea how it would turn out
of marches from around the
when she decided to drive
country.
800 miles to D.C. with
On the drive home to
her daughter. During the
Missouri, she and Lucia
election cycle, she said,
listened to Ta-Nehisi Coates’
every issue felt polarized
“Between the World and
to such an extreme. After
Me,” a personal and political
Donald Trump won and
history of race in this
del Pilar saw the reports
country written as a series of
of violence by some of his
letters to his teenaged son.
supporters, she wanted to
They are still processing
do something. His cabinet
the events of the weekend.
appointments only affirmed
The march was the
her resolve.
beginning of the story for
“I think it’s very
them — a renewed start
important for people
of political engagement; a
to understand (that) his
source of inspiration that
supporters don’t represent
will continue to push them
the whole country,” she
forward.
said. “I don’t want to be
Participating in it was
complacent in this moment.
like reading the introduction
I don’t want to pull back or
to an epic anthology, del
hide or just be hopeful that
Pilar said. Until you read the
everything will be OK.”
entire book, you don’t truly
Having grown up in
understand it.
Denver and lived in D.C.,
“This thing has yet to be
she also felt a little isolated,
written,” she said.
away from family — a
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transplant from blue cities
Aisha Sultan is a St.
to a red Midwestern state.
Louis-based journalist who
They made plans to meet
studies parenting in the
up for the march with del
digital age while trying to
Pilar’s sister and aunt, along keep up with her tech-savvy
with a friend traveling from
children. Find her on
California, who was also
Twitter: @AishaS.
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publicly questioning the validity of
climate science and has pledged to
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