Senator Mark Kelly

They need to go there.

We're seeing that a lot at the federal level, too, not just here.

I mean, I just got into it with the EPA administrator over a smelter in Arizona that emits, I think it was 12 tons of lead into the atmosphere every year.

And it has a elementary school that's a couple miles away.

You could see the smelter from the elementary school.

And the there's technology available to clean the lead and arsenic out of the exhaust.

And it was rather expensive and they didn't do it.

They asked for a waiver because this administration set up a process that didn't exist before where they could send a letter to the EPA that then just went right to the White House.

Straight line, just pass through, EPA doesn't get a say, and then Donald Trump could decide whether or not to approve the waiver.

The White House decides, and the waiver was approved.

The thing that cleans out the lead and arsenic didn't get put in, and then these kids have to breathe this in.

Now, I've had conversations now with the company that owns the mine and the smelter that

And they're going to try to work with us to come up with a solution because we can't have these kids breathing this.

But this is the process that this administration set up.

So even though we have an EPA that's trying to protect people's health, not right now in this administration, what comes first is profits and donations.

Right.

or they bought into the meme coin or the stable coin, or they made donations to MAGA Inc., the super PAC.

And when people make big donations like that, they generally expect something for it.

And we're seeing that over and over and over again.

I think folks are just like overwhelmed.