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On Friday’s Chris Salcedo Show, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin drove a stake through the heart of the fashionable green-left narrative, warning that heavy-handed green policies are literally driving revenue out of Democratic-run states and choking off real economic opportunity for hardworking Americans. Zeldin made those remarks while laying out the Trump EPA’s alternative: protect the environment without wrecking the economy, a message that blue-state politicians and coastal elites desperately need to hear.
This isn’t some partisan hobbyhorse — Lee Zeldin was sworn in as the 17th EPA Administrator on January 29, 2025 and is now in the position to put policy where his words are, backed by real authority and experience. He didn’t arrive overnight; he’s a veteran public servant and soldier who ran on common-sense stewardship, promising to balance environmental protection with American prosperity.
Zeldin didn’t mince words on Newsmax: he accused prior administrations of funneling billions through partisan pass-throughs and announced the Trump EPA has canceled roughly $20–22 billion in questionable grants that rewarded political allies instead of delivering results. That’s the kind of fiscal accountability Americans have been demanding — stop handing out taxpayer dollars to unvetted, well-connected outfits and start funding projects that actually deliver clean air, clean water, and good jobs.
The broader reality is ugly for blue-run capitals: mandates that force expensive transitions, hostile permitting regimes, and unpredictable policy swings make businesses and taxpayers vote with their feet. The EPA’s deregulatory pivot — including dozens of rule rollbacks aimed at restoring reliable energy production and cutting red tape — is a necessary correction to the panic-driven, ideology-first approach that has hollowed out parts of the American economy.
Democratic governors and progressive activists like to talk about saving the planet while driving away the people and the revenue that actually pay for their promises, and that contradiction is catching up to them. Voters are fed up with theatrical climate grandstanding when the practical result is higher energy prices, fewer factories, and a shrinking tax base — a truth Zeldin is finally willing to say out loud on national television.
Make no mistake: the EPA under Zeldin is moving from virtue signaling to results, pursuing policies to unleash American energy, protect baseload power, and secure supply chains so families can keep the lights on without being green-shamed into poverty. This administration’s common-sense approach — not the elites’ ideological crusade — will restore jobs, lower costs, and bring accountability back to environmental spending.
Patriots should cheer an EPA chief who refuses to choose between conservation and prosperity and instead fights for both, especially when blue-state pols prefer theater over outcomes. If conservatives hold the line, demand transparency, and keep pushing for energy policies that work for American families and industries, we can reverse the revenue hemorrhage and build a cleaner, stronger economy on our terms — not the left’s.
