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EPA Union Bosses Call Trump’s Budget Cuts ‘A Declaration Of War’
Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | February 28, 2017 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 02/28/2017 2:28:15 PM PST by kevcol

“This is a declaration of war, a war on the environment,” John O’Grady, an EPA union leader and agency employee, told E&E news. “It’s a declaration of war against children with asthma, against women of child-bearing age, against the elderly.”

Trump is expected to ask Congress to cut EPA’s budget 24 percent and reduce the agency’s staff by 3,000 employees.

O’Grady works out of EPA’s Chicago office where about 30 agency employees took to the streets to protest the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the agency. The Senate confirmed Pruitt in February.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycallernewsfoundation.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: draintheswamp; epa; governmentemployees; trump; unions; waste
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To: dp0622

Or, as miss nancy pelousi said of Gorsuch nomination: “if you drink water, eat food, breathe air or in any other way— INTERACT WITH THE COURTS!” Honestly, she said that. I had no idea I had everyday interaction with the courts of the US by simply digesting and living. Central idiocy casting, with a wide net constituency.


21 posted on 02/28/2017 2:37:01 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: freedumb2003

John O’Grady=Wm. J. Le Petomane


22 posted on 02/28/2017 2:37:01 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Paladin2

This place is a cesspool of enviro-wackos..has been since Clinton years...Bush did nothing to tamp it down...they should be concerned about clean water and air...that’s it!!!!


23 posted on 02/28/2017 2:37:04 PM PST by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

And the EPA supported the flood plain landscape trashers in No. Dak. who left a $1,000,000 mess behind for others to cleanup.


24 posted on 02/28/2017 2:38:59 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: kevcol

The typical gubmint employee mindset is this, the taxpayers work for gubmint employees.


25 posted on 02/28/2017 2:39:37 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: kevcol

Federal government employees declaring war on the American taxpayers? Good luck with that chief. ROTFL.


26 posted on 02/28/2017 2:40:40 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: kevcol

Here it is— and it can be reversed in the same way. Want to hear them Squeeaaaal?

Executive Order 10988 from JFK in 1962. Oh, the coincidence.


27 posted on 02/28/2017 2:40:43 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: kevcol
EPA employees protesting Pruitt's nomination in Chicago...

...with nice union printed signs.

28 posted on 02/28/2017 2:41:09 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: John S Mosby

Gee, so my ridiculous exaggeration wasn’t far off from the REAL dem stance

scary ####.


29 posted on 02/28/2017 2:41:23 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Don’t forget the water in Flynt MI.


30 posted on 02/28/2017 2:41:27 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Who printed their signs? Done on company time with company materials? Hmmmmmm


31 posted on 02/28/2017 2:41:49 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: kevcol

Would Trump actually pull a Reagan on the union members?

You bet your ash dump he would.


32 posted on 02/28/2017 2:41:59 PM PST by moovova
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To: freedumb2003

You nailed it!


33 posted on 02/28/2017 2:42:04 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: kevcol
NY Teamsters Pension Becomes First To Run Out Of Money As Expert Warns "Pension Tsunami" Is Coming
34 posted on 02/28/2017 2:43:40 PM PST by blam
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To: kevcol

Women and children hardest hit!

Screw off, O’Grady!

Even FDR was opposed to government employee unions.


35 posted on 02/28/2017 2:43:48 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hey, news media.....TRUMP in 2020. Because, F--- You!)
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To: kevcol

They should look at the bright side. These soon-to-be out-of-work ex-EPA “workers” soon will have plenty of time to march in protest wearing pink pussy suits.

BTW: what is a lateral career move for an EPA union thug?


36 posted on 02/28/2017 2:44:33 PM PST by confederatecarpetbag
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To: kevcol
EPA Union Bosses Call Trump’s Budget Cuts ‘A Declaration Of War’

And so it is!

37 posted on 02/28/2017 2:45:32 PM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: kevcol

The EPA has a union?!!!!!


38 posted on 02/28/2017 2:45:57 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: kevcol

The people in the government can protest against their appointed boss?

They couldn’t care less about the environment.

It’s about our money turning into theirs.


39 posted on 02/28/2017 2:46:27 PM PST by Regulator
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To: kevcol
You do know that proving that anything is "Never going to be toxic" or "Always will be safe" is impossible??? Yet Court Rulings have set such standards in numerous cases and..., as a result..., $Billions of funds have been authorized to fund EPA to study such issues and (amazingly) not be able to prove the impossible! This is a major source of funding for the EPA (siphoned from other Federal Agency budgets)!
40 posted on 02/28/2017 2:47:30 PM PST by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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