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Official: Trump wants to slash EPA workforce, budgetBy MICHAEL BIESECKER 40 minutes ago
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 his specific recommendations to the White House remain confidential. But Ebell, who left the transition team last week, said it was reasonable to expect the president to seek a cut of about $1 billion from the EPA's roughly $8 billion annual budget.
He also said Trump is likely to seek significant reductions to the agency's workforce, currently about 15,000 employees nationwide, with 8,000 of those in Washington. Ebell 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 replied that slashing the agency's workforce by half would be a good start.
https://apnews.com/1314fbdaa3cb4995a5e72ed7e77db88c?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Enjoy!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)have to buy oxygen tanks and to eat dirt instead of cake
cake is for the wealthy
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Just like shutting down all the national parks and selling them for pennies an acre to Trump's pals so they can clear cut and strip mine them for HUUUUGE $$$$!
Its coming, just wait.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I glad we will be free to die if we aren't rich though.
The republicans will probably call it the Health Care Freedom for All Americans act.
Sounds better then the Fuck Off and Die Peasants act eh?
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Tanuki
(14,920 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Tanuki
(14,920 posts)this is now:
https://www.google.com/amp/www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2017/01/25/peter-thiel-obtained-new-zealand-citizenship-possibly-because-of-exceptional-circumstances/?client=ms-android-att-us
"Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor, Facebook board member and self-described contrarian, has become Silicon Valleys most notorious and enthusiastic backer of President Donald Trump and his plan to make America great again. But if Trumps plan goes off the rails, Thiel appears to have something of an exit strategy. Call it Plan B.
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It is ironic that Thiel held New Zealand citizenship at the same time he served on the transition team for President Donald Trump, who built his successful campaign around a nationalist platform that included limiting the number of immigrants and building a wall along the length of the US-Mexico border. From this day forward, its going to be only America first, America first, Trump proclaimed during his inauguration speech h earlier this month.
....In anOctober story in the New Yorker, Sam Altman, the Y Combinator President and Thiel friend, discussed the Facebook board members New Zealand property briefly and alluded to it as being part of a backup plan in case of apocalyptic circumstances. In another New Yorker article published this month, several Silicon Valley notables are quoted as saying that New Zealand has become a favorite location for the super-rich who seek a haven where they could survive in a doomsday scenario. Another Thiel friend, venture capitalist Reid Hoffman told the magazine:
Saying youre buying a house in New Zealand is kind of a wink, wink, say no more. Once youve done the Masonic handshake, theyll be, like, Oh, you know, I have a broker who sells old ICBM silos, and theyre nuclear-hardened, and they and they kind of look like they would be interesting to live in.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)onethatcares
(16,184 posts)one of his projects being shut down by the EPA. He holds grudges a long time.