Lee Zeldin

a total lapse of funding as i pointed out would be an 89 reduction in the services that we provide i mean listen we could we could attempt to do that right now but we're trying to mitigate the damage of this shutdown on the american people that's an example of one agency looking to do its part we're hearing the same thing from other agencies

trying to accomplish the same.

We want to mitigate impacts as much as we can and hope that congressional Democrats decide to vote yes on what is a clean CR.

This is not something that is filled with a partisan wish list of conservatives.

This is just a funding bill to keep the government open.

Yes, sir.

We choose to both protect the environment and grow the economy.

It's not a binary choice.

There was this belief that in order to protect the environment, you had to strangulate entire sectors of the economy.

We, this year at the Trump EPA, reject that notion.

We are going through an amount of deregulation that when finalized in one year would be more deregulation than entire federal governments have done in the past across all federal agencies, across entire presidencies.

That's just that one agency here at the EPA.

One proposal alone, a proposed rescission of the 2009 Obama endangerment finding, if finalized, would be the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States.

We are not just imposing our will on the American public and saying this is what we believe to be right.

This is our final decision.

and we implement it, we have a proposal that goes out to the public.

There's a public comment period.

We respond to those comments, and then we meet our final decision.

Ben, you're somebody who follows Supreme Court decisions.

You're well-read in our law and our constitution.