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President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has fired hundreds of federal workers who had been tasked with advancing radical ideology by the previous administration.
Trump’s EPA announced this week that 455 employees have now been removed from the agency.
The workers have either been reassigned to other departments or fired from the government altogether.
The cull is an effort to eliminate the woke programs established by former President Joe Biden’s administration.
Axios reported that the EPA notified 280 employees that they would be terminated in a “reduction in force.”
Another 175 staffers responsible for “statutory functions” will be reassigned.
Those impacted held “environmental justice” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) roles in the agency.
Most of the employees worked in the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, Office of Inclusive Excellence, and its regional offices.
An EPA spokesperson told Axios:
“EPA is taking the next step to terminate the Biden-Harris Administration’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Environmental Justice arms of the agency.”
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has accused Biden of wasting $20 billion in taxpayer funds on environmental justice initiatives.
In a Monday post on X, Zeldin wrote:
“No matter how hard some try to circle the wagons to defend lighting billions of YOUR tax dollars on fire to be misspent in a $20 BILLION Green Slush Fund, I will not compromise on my ZERO tolerance policy against ANY waste and abuse!”