Already more than 1,000 workers down, EPA tries to convince others to depart

[A Badger]

1. Going for the 'knockout blow'.

The article's quote of Vought is instructive:

"Vought [currently director of the Office of Management and Budget] previously criticized federal bureaucrats in private speeches in 2023 and 2024, particularly the EPA, according to reporting by the nonprofit investigative news site Pro Publica. In a video Pro Publica obtained, Vought stated: "We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.'

Killing the 2009 Endangerment Finding is their ultimate goal.