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Its a fact that the EPA added ~6000 employees during the Biden administration and also instituted DEI policies to follow President Biden’s Executive Order 14035
by lenkite 1y ago
Its a fact that the EPA added ~6000 employees during the Biden administration and also instituted DEI policies to follow President Biden’s Executive Order 14035 (2021). This included employee-led special emphasis groups, LGBTQ+ events, and justice-oriented programs. All this is out of focus from the EPA's goal to safeguard the natural environment.
It should be NO surprise that there is massive push-back after a republican administration came to power. Donald Trump explicitly campaigned to cut the EPA’s size and funding and to eliminate DEI and environmental justice programs in the federal government.
- auggierose 1y agoIf the EPA added ~6000 employees during Biden, why did it have 1,155 employees when Trump took office? Wow, the bullshit some people are high on.
- colinmorelli 1y ago1,155 is the number of employees in the research office. The EPA overall had 16,155 employees in January 2025 [1]. [1] https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-reduction-force-reorganization-efforts-save-taxpayers-nearly-three#:~:text=In%20January%202025%2C%20EPA%20had,Voluntary%20Early%20Retirement%20(VERA). https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-reduction-for...
- reliabilityguy 1y ago> Wow, the bullshit some people are high on. From the article, which was easy to google: > The EPA currently has more than 16,000 employees, adding more than 6,000 during Joe Biden’s administration as the agency sought to rebuild. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/11/environmental-protection-agency-staff-react-trump-second-term https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/11/environm...