Center for Progressive Reform | February 3, 2025
From Threatening to Fire Essential EPA Staff to Rolling Back Key Environmental Policies, Second Trump Administration Actions Are Dangerous and Damaging
The second Trump administration’s disastrous early-term actions do nothing to address the economic inequality that our political classes have long ignored. In its first two weeks, the administration has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accords, reversed federal initiatives on environmental justice, withheld public health information, frozen spending on environmental and climate mitigation programs, threatened to withhold federal disaster aid, and just recently threatened to fire more than 1,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers who focus on climate and environmental enforcement.
