Today President Donald Trump visits the Environmental Protection Agency – the snake which he has scotched but which he is sadly a long way from killing.
On SiriusXM Breitbart News Daily this morning Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow asked me why this simple job is proving so difficult for Trump’s appointed EPA chief. Listen to our exchange below:
Well here are 179 million reasons why, courtesy of a Daily Caller investigation.
Six nonprofit groups that criticized President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts failed to mention the nearly $179 million in Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants they’ve received since 2009, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group (TheDCNF) analysis of federal spending data.
The agency has funded thousands of such groups since former President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, but TheDCNF focused only on six of the largest nonprofit recipients in its analysis of grant data compiled by the watchdog Open The Books.
But if you had to limit yourself to just one reason, I’d say simply: Jimmy Kimmel.
Which isn’t to say that the amiable liberal chat show host represents the Belly of the Beast of Green Evil. Merely that Kimmel is the perfect example of the kind of person who makes conservatives like Scott Pruitt feel uncomfortable about sounding too hardcore on environmental issues.
Earlier this year, for example, Kimmel sent out this ugly message to his eight million Twitter followers.
Put simply, Scott Pruitt is a piece of shit. If you care about the outdoors, stop him http://act.americanrivers.org/page/speakout/oppose-polluting-pruitt?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=americanrivers …#PruittHearing
Who wants to be dissed by easy-going, likeable, not-aggressively-political Jimmy Kimmel?
Read the rest at Breitbart.
