It's amateur hour at the Trump White House. Lee Zeldin just proved it.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : That's a small price to pay for government efficiency.
51% : Speaking Sunday on CBS News' "Face the Nation," Zeldin said he "can 'absolutely' guarantee Trump administration deregulations won't have adverse health impacts on people and the environment," according to a CBS News write-up of the interview.
45% : Two years later, we have a sense of what that looks like: Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency essentially eliminating the U.S. Agency for International Development without any legal recourse to do so; former Fox News host Pete Hegseth thrusting the Pentagon into "total chaos" and "disarray" -- according to an extraordinary op-ed by one of his own former top staffers, John Ullyot; the Department of Justice has been handed over to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who seems to think that her client is Trump himself, not the American people.
40% : And it was, until Monday, when The New York Times reported that the Environmental Protection Agency was "set to cancel tens of millions of dollars in grants to scientists studying environmental hazards faced by children in rural America, among other health issues.
35% : And if it feels like irony is dead and every American institution is being senselessly burned to the ground with absolutely nothing replacing it, you might appreciate the knowledge that Trump has also cut classes at the National Firefighter Academy, while also drastically reducing the ability to investigate when firefighters tragically lose their lives in the line of duty.
28% : I guess we were warned: "I am your retribution," Trump told supporters at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2023.

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