Lee Zeldin

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.

The Supreme Court in recent years, they issued a decision in the Loperbright case overturning the Chevron doctrine, saying essentially that agencies like the EPA can't use vague language in getting creative and giving themselves more power.

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.