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Whitehouse and others press nominee on EPA workforce, enforcement and IRA grant oversight
Summary
Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse and several senators pressed Lee Zeldin on whether he would support reducing EPA's workforce, how he would protect career staff, and whether he would review hundreds of millions in Inflation Reduction Act and other EPA grant spending for proper use.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and others raised concerns about political pressure on the agency’s workforce and about oversight of large grant programs administered by EPA.
Whitehouse asked whether Zeldin would support efforts he characterized as seeking to “traumatize” EPA’s workforce, cut staff by large percentages or strip civil‑service protections. Zeldin said his stated objective is to…
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