alt Hacker NewsIf the EPA added ~6000 employees during Biden, why did it have 1,155 employees when Trump took office?
Wow, the bullshit some people are high on.
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reliabilityguy • yesterday at 4:52 PM
> Wow, the bullshit some people are high on.
From the article, which was easy to google:
> The EPA currently has more than 16,000 employees, adding more than 6,000 during Joe Biden’s administration as the agency sought to rebuild.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/11/environm...
1,155 is the number of employees in the research office. The EPA overall had 16,155 employees in January 2025 [1].
[1] https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-reduction-for...