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EPA Suspends over 140 Toxic Employees Who Wrote Letter Denouncing Trump Policies – Watts Up With That?


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Team Trump’s swift removal of potentially toxic bureaucrats is certainly the right move to make.

Posted by Leslie Eastman

As I have previously reported, President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been busy reversing all the climate cultist policies that harm this nation’s ability to serve and support its citizens.

After six months of watching Trump and various members of his team suspend and terminate federal employees, end the progressive pork distribution agency formerly known as USAID, and otherwise upend the Deep State approach to ruling over American citizens, one might think that federal employees who valued regular paychecks and good benefits would realize “Resistance 2.0” would be a failure.

However, a group of EPA employees clearly weren’t paying attention. The agency has placed 144 staffers on paid leave and launched an inquiry into their participation in signing a letter that accused the Trump administration of politicizing the agency.

The agency said its actions were warranted because the employees had signed the letter using their official titles and because the letter had denigrated the agency’s leadership.

“The Environmental Protection Agency has a zero-tolerance policy for career bureaucrats unlawfully undermining, sabotaging and undercutting the administration’s agenda as voted for by the great people of this country last November,” the E.P.A. press secretary, Brigit Hirsch, wrote in an email.

The 144 employees received emails on Thursday saying they had been placed on leave for the next two weeks “pending an administrative investigation,” according to a copy of the email reviewed by The New York Times.

“You are required to provide a current email address and phone number so that we can contact you as part of our investigation,” the email said, adding that the staff members would continue to collect paychecks while on leave.

Trump campaigned on refocusing the EPA on its original mission and putting an end to the climate-driven excesses the agency had embraced, (especially during the Biden administration). And he won the election. If these individual were truly “brave,” they should have quit (and perhaps taken Trump up on his offer to accept a payout for early retirement) during the administration’s first phase of reducing the size of government.

However, this is how those eco-activists entrenched at the EPA decided to respond.

The letter outlined five key concerns, including that the Trump administration was dismantling the EPA office of research and development, canceling environmental justice programs and grants, making employees fearful, undermining the trust of the public, and “ignoring scientific consensus to protect polluters.”

“These actions directly undermine EPA’s capacity to fulfill its mission,” the letter said.

The employees placed on administrative leave are planning to sue.

More than 170 EPA employees put their names to the document, with about 100 more signing anonymously out of fear of retaliation, according to Jeremy Berg, a former editor-in-chief of Science magazine who is not an EPA employee but was among non-EPA scientists or academics to also sign.

At least 31 workers were escorted out of the Chicago office. A union leader told ABC7 Chicago they will sue the administration for violating their right to freedom of speech.

As Behind the Black‘s Robert Zimmerman notes, Team Trump’s swift removal of potentially toxic bureaucrats is certainly the right move to make.

The best part of this story is two fold. First, these individuals have done a good job of self-identif[ying] themselves as fifth columnists inside the Trump administration, making it easier to get rid of them. Second, the swift response by the Trump administration to remove them illustrates the difference between Trump 45 and Trump 47. In his first term Trump was more willing to tolerate this foolish and undemocratic behavior, and thus that first term was largely ineffective. In his second term Trump ain’t fooling around. From day one he has moved hard to clean house, and this story illustrates this difference most starkly.

And to this I heartily say, thank [G]od!

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