Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) called for EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to leave office, marking the latest move by Democrats to try to remove a Trump cabinet official.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse wrote Friday on X “Lyin’ Lee Zeldin deceived Congress, the courts, and the American people. I’m calling on him to go.”
On the Senate floor, he remarked, “Zeldin and his merry band of DOGE boys killed off grant programs based on ideas and phrases they didn’t like and wanted to cancel. None of this was based on the required individualized review he pretended to have done. That’s the Zeldin lie under oath. The Zeldin lie that is sanctionable. So for that reason, today, I’m calling on Lee Zeldin to go. It is bad enough that he’s weaponized the EPA to do the bidding of the giant fossil fuel and chemical corporations that donated to Trump’s campaign. But if he can’t
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