EPA staffers were in panic mode at the news of Donald Trump’s election victory.
In the wake of the president-elect’s promises of sweeping reforms at the bloated federal agency, employees were in tears and were offered counseling, E&E News reported.
“U.S. EPA employees were in tears.”https://t.co/cmxpsBoe3A
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 12, 2016
If you need advice on how to cope, I know some folks in eastern Kentucky who can help. https://t.co/XQPv0UbLUO – pic.twitter.com/huFnoZ2bY4
— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) November 12, 2016
EPA employees in tears. DOE staffers offered counseling. Tough times at agencies after Trump win by @rbravender & me https://t.co/2b7aMwVXdt
— Kevin Bogardus (@KevinBogardus) November 11, 2016
“People are upset. Some people took the day off because they were depressed,” John O’Grady, president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, said. The union represents thousands of employees of the Environmental Protection Agency.
“People were crying,” O’Grady, who works in EPA’s Region 5 office in Chicago, added. “They were recommending that people take sick leave and go home.”
President-elect Trump has a brand new website–and he wants you to stop by and ‘share your ideas’
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RT @kerpen “U.S. EPA employees were in tears.” https://t.co/z6woaWwwOf … @mimimayesTN— Deplorable Insurgent (@Who_Me_Two) November 12, 2016
Trump had vowed to repeal many of the agency’s far-reaching rules enacted under President Obama, including the Clean Power Plan which cuts power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions. Trump’s EPA transition team will be lead by Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a top climate change skeptic.
“If you look at the seven stages of grief, I’m still in denial. I will not look at the news. I will not read the news,” one EPA employee said, according to E&E News.
“I think it’s a sadness and a worry about just how far someone will go, especially when you never believe anything he says,” an Energy Department staffer said. “Many of us have worked in both the Bush and the Obama administrations, and I don’t think that we feel like it will be like just going back to Bush again.”
@kerpen @seanmdav I might’ve voted for Trump had I known the extent of the joy I’d feel watching all these leeches search for safe spaces.
— zone of danger (@mr_bovine_jonie) November 12, 2016
Alternative headline: Swamp Creatures Fear Impending Drainage MT @kerpen “U.S. EPA employees were in tears.” https://t.co/Py8CVMGOJZ
— Alex S. (@Alex_94706) November 12, 2016
Silvia Saracco, a union chapter head representing North Carolina EPA workers consoled employees, noting “There is a lot of angst out there, nervousness.”
“We all have to keep in mind that we are federal employees,” she said. Â “We swear allegiance to the Constitution, and we are executive branch employees. Whoever wins the election is who gives us the direction that we’re to go in. That’s our job.”
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@kerpen@EENewsUpdates Good. Now go out in the real world and try to actually contribute to society.
— Fred Garvin (@realfredgarvin) November 12, 2016
Watch anti-Trump rioters get taken down as cops take back the streets; it’s a new day in America
@realfredgarvin @kerpen @EENewsUpdates The last time EPA tried that they ended up poisoning an entire river with heavy metals.
— Stephen K (@Gator_Country) November 12, 2016
@kerpen if I were an IRS employee that had been politically targeting certain groups I might be a bit nervous right n.
— Jim Girouard (@JimGirouard132) November 12, 2016
I don’t know if my schaden can get any more freude. https://t.co/qm3be4ETPM
— Mr. ✘ (@GlomarResponder) November 12, 2016
@kerpen they could donate their tears to some drought areas
— Don’t Panic (@dd42bb) November 12, 2016
@kerpen @NoahCRothman Can’t not laugh.
— Chad Sexington (@MetricButtload) November 12, 2016
@kerpen @JunkScience Big government bullies are all in tears for fears of a @realDonaldTrump presidency. Boohoo… pic.twitter.com/gQjLI5hggg
— John Hancock (@CaptAmerica1787) November 12, 2016
@kerpen @shreksshrek @EENewsUpdates Nothing fills my heart full of joy more than this!!! #MAGA
— G (@icagreg40) November 12, 2016
@kerpen @EENewsUpdates Those tears taste so good….
It’s nice, 4 a change, that it’s a gov agency that lives in fear rather than citizens
— Patrick (@ArgentineTea) November 12, 2016
.@kerpen@guypbenson
Thrills me, most useless Govt agency there is. Bye bye— Jonny the gnarl (@inyosub) November 12, 2016
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