goldenequity
01-24-2017, 01:11 PM
Trump bans EPA employees from providing updates on social media or to reporters, bars new contracts, grants (https://twitter.com/AP/status/823953955445096448)
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... For now, other details about the frozen grants still unclear.
We don’t know whether the freeze affects all existing contracts — worth about $6.4 billion —
or just new grants and contracts.
The move is likely to be widely felt, though;
in 2013, the EPA awarded $9.6 billion in grants and about $1.4 billion in contracts.
Last year, the total budget was $8.6 billion,
with the money for grants and contracts given to organizations at every level,
from local nonprofits to state governments.
Other actions that Trump took on Monday include instituting a broad hiring freeze for federal government employees.
MORE (http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/24/14369072/trump-freeze-environmental-protection-agency-money-grants-climate)
(no more insider tax payer gravy train 'studies' and 'grants' ? BBB-b-but wat about the desert tortoise??? Somebody call a whhhhammmmmmmmbulance. srsly.. dismantling the EPA is the libs sacred cow which has evolved into a 'machine' for an endless stream of 'concerns'.
MISSION CREEP
Coming out of the '70s we NEEDED some kind of mechanism to raise awareness of the environment. I believe that.
Now? It's become a monster looking for more and more 'concerns' and has morphed into what Government has always been good at: excess and waste. )
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... For now, other details about the frozen grants still unclear.
We don’t know whether the freeze affects all existing contracts — worth about $6.4 billion —
or just new grants and contracts.
The move is likely to be widely felt, though;
in 2013, the EPA awarded $9.6 billion in grants and about $1.4 billion in contracts.
Last year, the total budget was $8.6 billion,
with the money for grants and contracts given to organizations at every level,
from local nonprofits to state governments.
Other actions that Trump took on Monday include instituting a broad hiring freeze for federal government employees.
MORE (http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/24/14369072/trump-freeze-environmental-protection-agency-money-grants-climate)
(no more insider tax payer gravy train 'studies' and 'grants' ? BBB-b-but wat about the desert tortoise??? Somebody call a whhhhammmmmmmmbulance. srsly.. dismantling the EPA is the libs sacred cow which has evolved into a 'machine' for an endless stream of 'concerns'.
MISSION CREEP
Coming out of the '70s we NEEDED some kind of mechanism to raise awareness of the environment. I believe that.
Now? It's become a monster looking for more and more 'concerns' and has morphed into what Government has always been good at: excess and waste. )