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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: kevcol

Blah Blah.

Whatever.


61 posted on 02/28/2017 3:15:48 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: MileHi
...with nice union printed signs.

You can spot the professional protesters with the professionally printed signs. Very obviously not "grass roots" protests.

62 posted on 02/28/2017 3:17:29 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: kevcol

“We want clean, laundered tax revenue”


63 posted on 02/28/2017 3:20:28 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: kevcol

I Thought he was in CEMENT somewhere... heh heh.


64 posted on 02/28/2017 3:20:36 PM PST by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (------->VMFA 235 '69-'72 KMCAS <------- "Death Angels")
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To: ExpatCanuck

Send them to the trash heap their “protesting” environmental friendly friends left if No. Dakota, give them shovels and bags let them EARN their salary.....Once the mess has been cleaned up THEN fire their asses.


65 posted on 02/28/2017 3:21:34 PM PST by DaveA37
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To: PJammers

I wasn’t actually referring to the union guys.


66 posted on 02/28/2017 3:21:56 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: All
And how many EPA employees were fired over this screw-up?


67 posted on 02/28/2017 3:26:05 PM PST by az_gila
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To: kevcol
Two words:

ANIMAS RIVER

68 posted on 02/28/2017 3:41:08 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (im)
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To: kevcol

Unions and their members are nothing but another impediment to real progress and prosperity.

There was a time for them, but clearly that time is long gone now.


69 posted on 02/28/2017 3:42:41 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Man says: I'll believe when I see. God says: Believe and you will see.)
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To: Myrddin
Very obviously not "grass roots" protests.

Never saw signs like that at Tea Party rallies. Or rioting/vandalism...

70 posted on 02/28/2017 3:48:10 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: max americana

Sure hope he follows through. Turn enforcement over to the states and just have minimal oversight/audit/watch dog (and that’s just to keep the true believers in check).


71 posted on 02/28/2017 3:49:26 PM PST by WHBates
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To: kevcol

The EPA had been at war with the people of the United States since 1993, so any whining about an act of war by this idiot is meaningless.


72 posted on 02/28/2017 3:51:46 PM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: dp0622

Don’t forget puppies and fuzzy bunnies!


73 posted on 02/28/2017 4:09:41 PM PST by Redleg Duke (He is leading us in Making America Great Again!)
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To: kevcol

For lefties, what isn’t? Yawn.


74 posted on 02/28/2017 4:18:38 PM PST by Bellflower (Dems = Mat 6:23 ....If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!)
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To: Kickass Conservative

“>>>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<<<”

Close the office. Save the rent and the payroll cost.


75 posted on 02/28/2017 4:44:14 PM PST by Soul of the South
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To: kevcol

What’s he going to do when Trump eliminates the EPA and recreates another one different from what it is now?


76 posted on 02/28/2017 4:46:11 PM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: kevcol

President Trump should move the EPA headquarters to Fargo, ND and see how many bureaucrats will relocate.


77 posted on 02/28/2017 4:50:10 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: Kickass Conservative
"30 agency employees took to the streets to protest " Great! Only 2970 to go.
78 posted on 02/28/2017 4:53:35 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: kevcol
LOL

As if Trump could do worse than you Jackasses!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/07/colorado-gold-mine-is-one-of-the-epas-new-superfund-pollution-sites/?utm_term=.60ebe4ac5c73

79 posted on 02/28/2017 4:53:39 PM PST by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

The EPA turned the Animas River into a super fund site through their arrogance and stupidity. Worse yet, no one was found accountable.


80 posted on 02/28/2017 4:54:14 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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