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REPORT: Staff At The EPA Will Be Reduced By HALF During Trump’s First Term

Published by American Lookout

By Mike LaChance


WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 02: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt answers reporters’ questions during a briefing at the White House June 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. Pruitt faced a barrage of questions related to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

People are retiring from the Environmental Protection agency in droves under the Trump administration. In fact, by the end of his first term, staff at the agency us on track to be cut in half.

The Washington Examiner reports:

Success: EPA set to reduce staff 50% in Trump’s first term

The Environmental Protection Agency, seen by President Trump as a bloated bureaucratic whale, is on schedule to fulfill his promise to reduce its staff nearly in half by the end of his first term mostly through retirements, not cuts, according to officials.

The EPA Tuesday provided to Secrets its first year staff results which show that the agency is below levels not seen since former President Reagan’s administration.

See the full story here.

January 9, 2018

Link: http://americanlookout.com/report-staff-at-the-epa-will-be-reduced-by-half-during-trumps-first-term/



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