Axios Media, a news company formed by Politico founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, has obtained a leaked memo from President Donald Trump’s staff that portends total disaster for the left’s litany of environmental fanatics.
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Dubbed the “Agency Action” plan, the memo “fleshes out Trump’s campaign promises to gut the [Environmental Protection Agency],” according to Axios.
It recommends that the president “[i]ssue an executive order barring EPA from overruling federal/state regulatory/permit decisions unless in clear violation of established law.” It also recommends large budget cuts to the EPA as well.
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Boom, boom and BOOM.
As reported by The Daily Caller, Trump planned to sign at least 200 executive orders Monday, a large number of them related to the Environmental Protection Agency. However, this was just the beginning:
“We have to roll them out gradually,” a transition source reportedly cautioned.
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Not surprisingly, the radical Left has already begun freaking out. Take for instance Jay Michaelson, a writer for The Daily Beast who published an inane piece Monday slamming President Trump for allegedly being allergic to truth.
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“Of course, one of the nice things about facts is that they don’t care what you believe,” he wrote. “In fact, climate change is real and undisputed by experts. And in fact, sexual orientation and gender identity (which the Southern Baptist Convention declared nonexistent) are also real and undisputed by experts.”
If this guy truly believes that notions of sexual orientation and gender identity invalidate the ancient belief that men are men and women are women, then I am afraid he is the one who is allergic to facts and truth.
The same applies for his belief that “climate change is real and undisputed by experts.” That is a patently false and rather unscientific statement that discounts the litany of climate scientists who question the theory of man-made climate change.
No matter, because Trump’s cuts to the EPA will continue whether liberals like it or not. They had eight years to improve both the economy and the environment — and since they have clearly failed, it is time for a new approach.
