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Democrats furious over BILLIONS in grant cuts to major agency · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Sunday Night. In America, solar companies and
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  Speaker 1: labor unions are suing the EPA after the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: pushed for deregulation. The EPA cut twenty nine billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: in grants and proposed changing regulations on the use of
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  Speaker 1: certain chemicals. And is there a role for the EPA
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  Speaker 1: now that China has threatened US access to rare earth minerals?
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  Speaker 1: Joining us as EPA Administrator, Lee Zeld and welcome, mister administrator.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being well. The spending is easy, cutting
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  Speaker 1: is hard. Tell us what resistance you are running into
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  Speaker 1: in your efforts to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse at
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  Speaker 1: the EPA.
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  Speaker 2: Congressional Democrats in the so called Inflation Reduction Act ended
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  Speaker 2: up appropriating tens of billions of dollars through EPA, so
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  Speaker 2: much money that the Biden EPA didn't even know how
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  Speaker 2: to spend it, and through self dealing and conflicts of interest,
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  Speaker 2: unqualified recipients reduced agency site They were giving money to
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  Speaker 2: these activists NGOs in many cases passed through entities that
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  Speaker 2: were being run by a former Biden Obama officials, former
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  Speaker 2: Democratic donors, and in some cases as you reference what
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  Speaker 2: was called a Solar for All program, a seven billion
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  Speaker 2: dollar program that some are now suing on. We were
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  Speaker 2: finding that the money was going through pass throughs, through
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  Speaker 2: other pass throughs, through pastors, through a fourth pass through,
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  Speaker 2: where every pass through was getting its own cut of
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  Speaker 2: at least fifteen percent. So why would congressional Democrats be
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  Speaker 2: so upset about US canceling all of these grants, Well,
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  Speaker 2: their friends were getting paid tremendous amount of money, where
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  Speaker 2: we as conservatives believe strongly that you could protect the
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  Speaker 2: environment and grow the economy with a zero tolerance policy
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  Speaker 2: for any waste and abuse. We believe that if you
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  Speaker 2: appropriate a dollar towards dealing with an environmental issue, the
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  Speaker 2: dollars should go directly towards remediating the environmental issue, not
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  Speaker 2: to some activist environmental NGO.
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  Speaker 1: Friends and donors. That's what I hear you saying. It
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  Speaker 1: is going to friends and donors of Joe Biden and
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  Speaker 1: Barack Obama. Let me ask you something that's dissimilar but
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  Speaker 1: perhaps related. When you and I were in the House together,
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  Speaker 1: these groups would sue the Obama administration and then they
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  Speaker 1: would settle the lawsuits, which bypasses Congress. Congress couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: anything about it because the administration had settled a lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: on friendly terms with these outside advocacy groups. I'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: the Leez Elder I know is doing everything he can
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  Speaker 1: to put an end to that sue and subtle process.
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  Speaker 2: Right, We're following the law, and when we want to
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  Speaker 2: change a regulation, we aren't just imposing our will in
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  Speaker 2: saying that this is the change and it's now final.
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  Speaker 2: We put out a draft proposal, we go through the
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  Speaker 2: interagency process, We put the proposal out for public comment,
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  Speaker 2: we receive public comments, we read them, we'll respond, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll reach a final decision. And then you understand well
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  Speaker 2: that as administrator of VPA, everything that I decide, whether
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  Speaker 2: I say yes or no, someone's going to assue me.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be prepared to defend these decisions that
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  Speaker 2: we reach. What we are ultimately going to end up
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  Speaker 2: doing in one year is more deregulation than entire federal
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  Speaker 2: governments have done across all agencies, across entire presidencies, and
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  Speaker 2: just one of our proposals alone, if finalized, the decision
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  Speaker 2: of the two thousand and nine Obama Endangerment Finding would
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  Speaker 2: be the single largest act of deregulation in the history
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  Speaker 2: of the United States. Again, we're choosing to protect the
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  Speaker 2: environment and grow the economy. It's not a binary choice.
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  Speaker 1: I knew it was a good idea to put a
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  Speaker 1: former prosecutor at the EPA before I'll let you go.
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  Speaker 1: China has been in the news this week cutting off
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  Speaker 1: our access to rare earth minerals. Other folks are telling
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  Speaker 1: me we're sitting a top large resources, but accessing those
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  Speaker 1: resources is hard because of regulation, litigation. Does any of
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  Speaker 1: that fall in your jurisdiction and are you working on
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  Speaker 1: that issue?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. President Trump has been very focused on this and
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  Speaker 2: bringing together all the different agencies, the Cabinet members where
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  Speaker 2: we have our own equities areas of jurisdiction that overlap here.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump wants to unleash energy dominance. He wants to
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  Speaker 2: make us stronger as it relates to national security. It's
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  Speaker 2: not just about our economy, it's us our national security.
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  Speaker 2: Out us argue by the way, it's better for our
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  Speaker 2: environment because the way that we tap into all of
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  Speaker 2: these supplies is better safer than so many other countries
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  Speaker 2: elsewhere around the world. When we want to make America
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  Speaker 2: the AI capital of the world. That's part of a
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  Speaker 2: race as well with a nation like China, and the
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  Speaker 2: President wants to make sure that America wins all of it.
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  Speaker 2: He created a National Energy Dominance Council, working with the
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  Speaker 2: Department of Interior, Secretary Bergham, Chris Wright, the Department of Energy,
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  Speaker 2: and Howard Lutnick at the Department of Commerce and more.
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  Speaker 2: All these agencies are working together with the President and
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  Speaker 2: the White House to make sure that this agenda, this
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  Speaker 2: Trump mandate gets over the finish line. This is a
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  Speaker 2: very important goal and direct it from the President that
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  Speaker 2: every single day we are working on to make great progress.
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  Speaker 1: for your service to our country and uniform and your
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  Speaker 1: continued service to our country, and for joining us on
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