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The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin, said on Friday that anyone who is not committed to conducting the directives of President Trump may not belong to the agency.
“I don’t think anyone is here in the EPA that is not committed to the mission of the agency and legal directives from the duly elected President of the United States,” Zeldin told journalists.
However, he also said that he valued people who may have different opinions on how to carry out Trump’s policies.
“I love listening to a diversity of vision and thinking about the decisions we have to make here inside the agency,” Zeldin said.
“When a lawful directive comes from the President of the United States, any President of the United States, in order to get an agency to achieve a goal within a period, many times many different ways of doing so,” he added.
Zeldin, who was confirmed to run the EPA WednesdayHe also predicted that there would be “a reduction in counting the agencies throughout the federal government”.
“For us, we must control who decides to stay and who decides to go and assure us that we fill all our most important positions urgently,” he added.
Her comments arrive after Trump administration Sent a note to federal employees offering purchases If they don’t want to go back to work. It also comes after Trump has indicated that he could use a tool called “F program ‘ To facilitate the trading of career officials.
The opponents to do it expressed their concern so that these cuts could lead to a “brain drain” To science agencies such as the EPA “.
