"Regulatory Reform" Stalled At EPA; Administration Too Incompetent To Nominate People

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President Trump has so far failed to provide the U.S. EPA staffers needed to execute an aggressive deregulatory game plan. The Republican is lagging the pace of his predecessor, President Obama, in nominating people for EPA's 14 Senate-confirmed positions.

There's only one confirmed EPA official in place: Administrator Scott Pruitt. And Trump has made only one other EPA pick, Susan Bodine for enforcement chief, whose nomination was sent to the Senate yesterday. By contrast, an E&E News review of congressional records shows that Obama, by the end of April 2009, had sent on seven EPA nominations to Capitol Hill. Further, the Senate had confirmed five of those picks by mid-May of that year. By the end of 2009, Obama had 12 EPA nominees confirmed by the Senate.

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Others were openly frustrated with the lack of EPA nominees. "I think President Trump is off to a good start, but the fact that they're not nominating people for the second-tier and third-tier positions, their agenda will freeze up," said Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who led Trump's EPA transition team.

"They have a huge problem. Every day, it's closer to being a disaster," Ebell said.

He noted that Pruitt has filled out his political staff within his own office at EPA, bringing on aides to lead congressional relations, policy and public affairs. But career employees who served in prior administrations are now holding down vital positions on an acting basis, like the air and water offices as well as general counsel.

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https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060054698

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1. Purposely hollowing out the Government.

When the attack comes... cyber, viral, military, terrorist... whatever. The government will be in complete chaos and collapse.