RIFs are expected for employees in impacted areas, while DOGE is now requiring special sign off for any large EPA expenditure ...

"With this action, EPA is delivering organizational improvements to the personnel structure that will directly benefit all Americans," the memo, which ABC News reviewed, said. Lee Zeldin ...

The person noted EPA instead focused its argument on the program structure and oversight, not the grantees’ actions. “Their claims (of abuse) simply aren’t true,” said the person ...

Zeldin raised questions in a letter to the agency’s watchdog about the EPA’s use of Citibank to hold the money, a structure that allowed the eight entities to be used as “pass throughs ...