Lee Zeldin

If there's an absence inside of statute, it doesn't say that the agency can't.

Well, I guess that means we can.

That was an interpretation of the past.

Now that the Chevron doctrine is overturned, we at the EPA will follow the plain language of the law, we will follow the law, and we will not take creative liberty in giving ourselves more power because of it.

That was one of the ironies, by the way, of this No Kings protest that just took place.

The president's directive to me at the agency is that every single day we should be reducing our powers, that we should be empowering states, empowering the people to be in charge of

their own lives and to help the economy flourish.

One other quick point I wanted to mention, we've gone through substantial efficiencies over the course of this year to save tax dollars.

The annual operating budget of EPA is about $10 billion.

I've canceled over $29 billion worth of grants, $750 million annually in staffing reductions, money saved in media consolidations, real estate consolidations,

I'm sorry, media cancellations of subscriptions, real estate consolidations, closed an EPA museum that no one knew about or even visited.

And the savings just keep getting racked up on behalf of the American taxpayer.

Another important thing to fight for Americans, American families, and also the American economy.

But that doesn't mean that it gets weaker. The number might end up getting lower, not higher.

But that doesn't mean that it gets weaker. The number might end up getting lower, not higher.

Our officers that we partner with in digital forensics are definitely seeing a spike in these crimes originating from Nigeria. some of the African countries where this is financially motivated sextortion. They'll post and pretend to be a teenage girl or a teenage boy asking for explicit images.

Our officers that we partner with in digital forensics are definitely seeing a spike in these crimes originating from Nigeria. some of the African countries where this is financially motivated sextortion. They'll post and pretend to be a teenage girl or a teenage boy asking for explicit images.

Once those images are exchanged, then the predator from one of these African nations will go in and threaten them.

Once those images are exchanged, then the predator from one of these African nations will go in and threaten them.

More and more of these sex predators are going online, and they're becoming more sophisticated in the ways that they go after young people, minors that they're trying to exploit. What's brand new that we're seeing now is AI, and AI is becoming a very emerging threat for sextortion, where these predators can take an image of a fully clothed child and turn it into child sexual abuse material.