Day: July 3, 2025
Letter from workers, which EPA claims is ‘unlawful’, says agency is no longer living up to its mission
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday put on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a “declaration of dissent” about its policies, accusing them of “unlawfully undermining” the Trump administration’s agenda.
In a letter made public Monday, the employees wrote that the agency is no longer living up to its mission to protect human health and the environment. The letter represented rare public criticism from agency employees who knew they could face blowback for speaking out against a weakening of funding and federal support for climate, environmental and health science.
Joe Biden said some of his presidency’s key accomplishments were “changing so rapidly” under the Trump administration and that European leaders had sought his advice since he left the White House https://t.co/ApRjUVQfeq
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) July 4, 2025
The story begins in March 1986, when Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin and his daughter Natalia walked into Trump Tower and requested a meeting with Donald Trump.
Natalia told Politico years later that their mission was to “hook” the assumed billionaire, and “Trump melted at… pic.twitter.com/zQu9rpDr3m
— TrumpFile.org (@TrumpFile) July 4, 2025