As expected, EPA employees are going into full meltdown mode. Don’t worry though! Your tax dollars are paying for seminars to help them cope!
A source inside the EPA took a quick picture of counseling sessions being advertised at the agency as @realDonaldTrump takes over. pic.twitter.com/5wgQItCX0D
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) January 27, 2017
Daily Wire thinks they might know what is triggering the EPA Snowflakes:
That sign may have been posted after the former head of President Donald Trump’s transition team at the EPA, Myron Ebell, told AP on Thursday that Trump will likely cut significant numbers of jobs at the EPA. Ebell stated, “Let’s aim for half and see how it works out, and then maybe we’ll want to go further,” adding, “President Trump said during the campaign that he would like to abolish the EPA, or ‘leave a little bit. I think the administration is likely to start proposing cuts to the 15,000 staff, because the fact is that a huge amount of the work of the EPA is actually done by state agencies. It’s not clear why so many employees are needed at the federal level.”
Ebell also asserted that it was reasonable to expect Trump to cut roughly $1 billion from the EPA’s roughly $8 billion annual budget.
Former Republican EPA Administrator William K. Reilly tried to calm the waters roiled by Ebell, countering, “I would tell the EPA staff that, in my experience, transition teams often have zero influence. They shouldn’t be taken that seriously. They’re just ideologues. They don’t work for and are not even known to the incoming cabinet.”
So basically they are quacking in their boots that there may be layoffs, so there’s going to be counseling sessions. Wouldn’t that time be better spent polishing up their resume? I dunno, maybe that’s just me.
It’ll be very interesting to see how this all pans out.