EPA employees uncertain about their careers under the Trump administration grilled Administrator Lee Zeldin during his visit to the agency’s Chicago office Thursday morning.
Zeldin — who has embraced the administration’s government downsizing effort and said he wants to cut the agency’s budget by more than half — arrived Thursday for an all-hands meeting with employees in the Chicago office.
Staffers knew about it a day ahead of time and dozens of EPA employees packed into the event, including some wearing employee union T-shirts, said Nicole Cantello, president of the union local that represents EPA workers in the Chicago office.
After Zeldin gave a speech to the audience, EPA employees surrounded him and asked “tons of questions,” Cantello said.
