A federal judge sharply criticized Trump administration officials Monday over the removal of hundreds of trees from Washington, DC’s historic East Potomac Golf Links, saying the government had failed to provide adequate notice despite her previous instructions to notify the court before major work proceeded.
Tyler Hassen, the former Acting Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management and Budget at the U.S. Department of Interior, spoke about his experience rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal government and how government “waste is out of control.”
The Trump administration’s restorations of fountains, monuments, and parks in D.C. show squalor was a choice, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
U.S. President Joe Biden has proposed blocking all new drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as the world cries out for more energy from more sources far from Russia, the Middle East, and the OPEC oil cartel.
The Biden Department of Interior has paused oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands as part of an effort to review the program’s policy ramifications, according to an agency memo obtained by Reuters.
A federal judge will not block the Trump administration from issuing oil leasing permits in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
