EPA’s Climate Cultists and Their Budget Are About To Get Culled

EPA’s Climate Cultists and Their Budget Are About To Get Culled

Few agencies became more power-crazed during the Biden era than the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

A few of the low-lights, as a reminder about how grasping and dictatorial it was becoming, include:

• The agency announcing its first arrest for a “climate crime” in December, 2024.
• One of its “special advisors” bragging Biden was giving out “gold bars” in the form of climate justice grants at the end of the Biden term.
• The lawsuit against the EPA brought by 25  States Attorneys General  over the agency’s de facto electric vehicle (EV) mandate.
• The agency’s attempt to ban industry-essential chemical, methylene chloride.
• The EPA becoming an active participant in the “Global War on Meat.”
• The agency’s targeting of one of our most important oil fields as a “super-emitter“.

If there was any way a bureaucrat could virtue signal, weaken our nation, and be rewarded eco-activism with our tax dollars, that person found the EPA a great place to be.

That was, until President Donald Trump won in November.

Perhaps the EPA’s gang of bureaucrats thought they could continue to thwart the President’s will by conducting “business as usual.”

Happily, for taxpayers, that approach has now gone to the landfill.

The new EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, plans to cut approximately 65% of its budget.

Mr. Trump said Mr. Zeldin “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.”

Within minutes, managers at the agency said they received a White House memo telling them to prepare for mass layoffs.

The memo, which was sent to leaders of multiple agencies, said that the federal government “is costly, inefficient, and deeply in debt.” It did not mention the 65 percent goal, but laid out steps for the E.P.A. to prepare for what is known as a reduction in force, which would result in eliminating jobs.

Hours later, an E.P.A. official said Mr. Trump was referring to overall agency budget cuts and not a 65 percent reduction in personnel.

President Trump announces Lee Zeldin plans to fire up to 65% of the EPA employees. This will mean about 12k jobs cut from the fat.

Lee Zeldin also canceled 3 DEI contracts, saving us $45 million.

Let’s DOGE!!!! pic.twitter.com/gFhZPF48Jm

— Patriot Lady (@angelwoman501) February 26, 2025

And while it is not the “10,000” that would be 65% reduction in staff, Zeldin did indicate 1,000 were being targeted for dismissal shortly after he was confirmed.

Some progress is being made on this front.

Such a gutting of EPA’s budget would almost certainly mean significant reductions in staff. The president’s statement came shortly after the White House ordered EPA and other federal agencies to submit plans for “large-scale reductions in force” by mid-March.

EPA earlier this month terminated 388 workers, or about 2.5 percent of its workforce. However, at least some of those personnel have been called back, mirroring rehirings at other agencies for personnel who were apparently fired inadvertently.

There is joy on social media over this culling of bureaucratic power. An agency that was tasked with preventing pollution is now trying to direct personal choices in what we eat, how we travel, and what fuels were are entitled to use.

Wait until the EPA changes the 2012 CO2 endangerment ruling. IPCC heads will explode.

Also, Zeldin stated today that approximately 65% of EPA employees will be cut…that most are climate activists.

— Rod Hummel (@Royalacresrod) February 26, 2025

Trump clearly learned some valuable lessons in governance and bureaucratic demolition.

@POTUS is doing what should’ve been done in the first term but he trusted the people to actually want to do the right thing.

Lee Zeldin potentially firing 65% of all EPA govt employees

Wow

— James (@RealJTesauro1) February 26, 2025

And those that retain their jobs actually have to show up for work.

JUST NOW: EPA Secretary, Lee Zeldin says that thousands of EPA employees have just been ordered to return to in-office work today. pic.twitter.com/oJ7nANDbpW

— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) February 25, 2025

The climate at the EPA is about to get much, much colder.

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