{"id":133261,"date":"2017-04-13T08:43:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/13\/the-guarded-administration.html"},"modified":"2017-04-13T08:43:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:43:46","slug":"the-guarded-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/13\/the-guarded-administration.html","title":{"rendered":"The Guarded Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why does the head of the EPA need a 24&#215;7 security detail for the first time ever? Apparently because of worries about opposition within his own department (!) plus &quot;hateful&quot; attacks from the &quot;Left.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>We can&#39;t afford programs to keep kids and pregnant women away from lead paint, but we can afford a new platoon of bodyguards for the EPA Administrator (and for the new Secretary of Education, too).<\/p>\n<p>Fiscal conservatism at its best, I tell you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.govexec.com\/management\/2017\/04\/scott-pruitt-requests-funds-247-fleet-bodyguards-epa-poised-cut-health-and-safety-programs\/136934\/?oref=ge-android-article-share'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/va8NzqsGrWmg5F8KtbGojlbp4j3pgcf9YODVwtBHiDvB6FbFdhBlJWaIZZoHWFsz4FDfiUY_C-dodqFxmVAyR16xxp4aAVarHgoH_ZYUsjkOTBQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.govexec.com\/management\/2017\/04\/scott-pruitt-requests-funds-247-fleet-bodyguards-epa-poised-cut-health-and-safety-programs\/136934\/?oref=ge-android-article-share'>Scott Pruitt Requests Funds For a 24\/7 Fleet of Bodyguards<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe EPA, the agency he runs, is poised to cut the budgets of major health and safety programs\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/BnmauEqHeTJ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does the head of the EPA need a 24&#215;7 security detail for the first time ever? Apparently because of worries about opposition within his own department (!) plus &quot;hateful&quot; attacks from the &quot;Left.&quot; We can&#39;t afford programs to keep kids and pregnant women away from lead paint, but we can afford a new platoon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/13\/the-guarded-administration.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Guarded Administration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136696,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/08\/judge-tells-epa-to-put-up-or-shut-up-on-climate-change-evidence.html","url_meta":{"origin":133261,"position":0},"title":"Judge tells EPA to put up or shut up on climate change &#8220;evidence&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Jun-18 5:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Scott Pruitt walked into the EPA and, suddenly, CO2 was playing no substantive role in climate change, and climate change was a deeply controversial, disagreed-upon phenomenon. 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