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Zeldin Likely to Cut 65 Percent of EPA Staff, Says Trump

27 February 2025 1:20 AM
BCI 24 News Network

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump announced that the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, was moving to lay off almost two-thirds of his agency’s employees.
“I spoke with Lee Zeldin, and he thinks he’s going to be cutting 65 or so percent of people from environmental,” Trump said.
According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the EPA employs over 18,000 people, with over 17,000 of them being permanent workers.
Trump said staff at the agency included “a lot of people that weren’t doing their job—they were just obstructionists.”
He also alleged that many staff in the agency “didn’t exist.”…