President Trump’s EPA is cleansing home and can fireplace or reassign a whole lot of staff concerned in Marxist ‘environmental justice’ and DEI applications.
Joe Biden used the EPA to fund Marxist pet initiatives. In 2024, Biden’s EPA introduced $1.6 billion in ‘environmental and local weather justice neighborhood change grants.’
Biden’s EPA additionally secretly sheltered $20 billion at Citibank to be later disbursed to eight far-left inexperienced ‘nonprofits.’
The Trump Administration is working to claw again the funds and dismantle the DEI applications.
Final month, the EPA introduced it had terminated the Biden Administration’s Environmental Justice and Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion arms of the company.
“President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American folks. A part of this mandate consists of the elimination of compelled discrimination applications,” stated EPA Chief Lee Zeldin. “Below the Trump Administration, EPA is affirming our dedication to serve each American with equal dignity and respect.”
“Some imagine that so-called ‘environmental justice’ is warranted to help communities which have been left behind. This concept sounds good in idea and receives bipartisan assist. However in actuality, ‘environmental justice’ has been used primarily as an excuse to fund left-wing activists as a substitute of really spending these {dollars} to straight remediate environmental points for these communities,” Zeldin added.
Axios reported:
The Environmental Safety Company plans to fireplace or reassign greater than 450 staffers engaged on environmental justice points, it stated Tuesday.
Why it issues: The massive-scale adjustments may successfully finish a lot of the EPA’s work tackling air pollution in traditionally deprived communities.
- It’s a part of the Trump administration’s effort to vastly shrink the federal workforce. EPA has round 15,000 workers.
Driving the information: EPA notified roughly 280 workers that they are going to be fired in a “discount in power.” One other 175 who carry out “statutory features” might be reassigned.
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The workers come from the Workplace of Environmental Justice and Exterior Civil Rights, the Workplace of Inclusive Excellence, and EPA regional places of work.
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“EPA is taking the subsequent step to terminate the Biden-Harris Administration’s Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion and Environmental Justice arms of the company,” a spokesperson stated.
