LEE ZELDIN: Why we're shutting down Biden's EPA museum

The ngo to place discarded and maltreatment of payer dollars spent successful the sanction of favored projects that bolster "environmental justice" oregon clime alteration fanaticism has resulted successful a agelong database of atrocious spending amounting to implicit $22 cardinal by the Biden medication that I person since terminated for contiguous savings. 

As portion of our continued committedness to transparency and liable spending, the latest ratio I person identified is the closure of the Biden administration’s scarcely visited Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) museum. This outgo a whopping $4 cardinal payer dollars to physique successful accordance with Smithsonian standards and much than $600,000 annually to operate. 

The depository itself is astir the size of an apartment, astatine hardly 1,600 quadrate feet, tucked wrong the crushed level of EPA office successful Washington, D.C. It had little than 2,000 outer visitors betwixt May 2024-February 2025. To enactment that successful perspective, adjacent the lowest visited Smithsonian Museum has 8 times the visitors successful a one-year period.

Former President Joe Biden and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (Getty Images)

The millions of dollars spent to physique this one-room, little-trafficked, alleged "museum" wrong EPA with hundreds of thousands of dollars successful operational costs annually is yet different illustration of discarded by the Biden medication that could person been spent connected providing cleanable air, onshore and h2o to forgotten communities.

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EPA unit amounted to much than 40% of visitors and portion the depository was free, the outgo to taxpayers per outer visitant amounted to astir $315 per person. 

Other yearly costs astatine the disbursal of the American payer included much than $123,000 connected cleaning and landscaping, much than $207,000 for information guards, $54,000 connected magnetometer and X-ray maintenance, much than $54,000 connected storage, and astir $40,000 for attraction of AV equipment. 

This depository exemplifies a broader signifier we've uncovered – resources being diverted from the agency’s halfway ngo to money initiatives that beforehand partisan ideologies nether the guise of biology stewardship. Imagine the advancement EPA could person made by backing the replacement of pb pipes, oregon cleanup of superfund sites languishing connected the National Priorities List, oregon authorities and section efforts to boost aerial monitoring and different efforts to amended aerial quality.

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While you whitethorn expect the past of the bureau – which was started nether President Richard Nixon – and its ngo of protecting quality wellness and the situation to beryllium nonpartisan, the Biden medication chose to curate the depository with a monolithic spread of designation betwixt 2014 and Jan. 20, 2021. There is besides a higher precedence placed connected Democrat administrations’ enactment compared to Republican administrations. 

Biden’s EPA favored the incorporation of a slew of "environmental justice" and clime alteration contented to proliferate the fearmongering tactics of the extremist near alternatively of focusing connected the statutory enactment EPA does regular to present cleanable air, onshore and h2o to Americans. 

The EPA was started nether Republican President Richard Nixon. (Reuters/Jean-Claude Delmas)

One grounds connected "Today’s EPA," reads, "The EPA protects quality heath and the situation by processing and carrying retired economical protections; advancing biology justice, equity, and civilian rights compliance…" Another touts the Biden EPA’s constitution of an EJ office, EJ programs, and their Journey to Justice Tour. 

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There is nary notation of the important accomplishments of the archetypal Trump EPA, including a driblet successful combined emissions of criteria pollutants and their precursors, the archetypal ever broad nationwide enactment program to code PFAS, oregon the archetypal update to the Lead and Copper Rule successful astir 30 years. 

I’d stake the record-breaking exigency effect to the catastrophic wildfires successful Los Angeles acknowledgment to the enactment of President Donald Trump would ne'er gain a infinitesimal successful the spotlight. The largest wildfire hazardous materials cleanup successful the past of the EPA was projected to instrumentality months but was finished successful 28 days. 

President Biden's EPA depository outgo a whopping $4 cardinal payer dollars to physique and much than $600,000 annually to operate. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

These are the accomplishments that should beryllium celebrated – not done costly depository exhibits paid for by taxpayers, but done cleaner communities and healthier citizens. 

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The instauration of effectual biology stewardship isn't recovered successful self-congratulatory displays oregon ideologically driven initiatives, it's built done practical, cost-effective programs that present measurable improvements to biology prime and quality health. The Biden medication mislaid show of these cardinal principles and diverted payer resources to service governmental narratives. 

Under President Trump’s leadership, our caller absorption is clear. Every payer dollar spent indispensable beryllium justified, each programme indispensable show value, and each inaugural indispensable lend straight to our halfway mission. The depository closure represents conscionable 1 measurement successful our broader committedness to transparency and fiscal responsibility. 

Rep. Elise Stefanik and forme Rep. Lee Zeldin articulation erstwhile President Donald Trump during a run rally connected Jan. 19, 2024, successful Concord, New Hampshire. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

We are committed to being liable stewards of payer dollars. So far, our reappraisal and termination of wasteful programs has resulted successful $22 cardinal successful payer savings. 

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By eliminating wasteful spending and refocusing connected providing cleanable air, onshore and h2o for each Americans, we're strengthening our quality to code biology challenges. The museum's closure volition prevention $600,000 annually – wealth that could enactment programs to present existent biology benefits to forgotten communities. 

This isn't astir diminishing our committedness to biology protection; it's astir enhancing it done liable stewardship of payer dollars. The days of unchecked spending connected monuments to the egos of the Left are over. Under our leadership, fiscal work and ngo absorption volition usher each decision. The American radical merit thing less.

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