“I think the lesson we need to learn from the first nine months of the Trump administration is that when they say things, they mean it,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, speaking about the proposed additional layoffs at agencies.
“I have learned they have followed their playbook to the T and so I expect we continue to see efforts by the Trump administration to do what it wants to do, irrespective of the law, irrespective of appropriations, irrespective of what Congress says or thinks or wants.”