Watch: EPA Chief Lee Zeldin debates & demolishes local weather activist Dem Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro
Nothing infuriates an uninformed Congressional Dem more than when they realize they voluntarily triggered a debate with someone who actually knows what they are talking about, reads federal statute and adheres to Supreme Court precedent. Today’s self-implosion by @rosadelauro was… pic.twitter.com/6HTgVjQCiE
— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) April 27, 2026
https://apnews.com/article/epa-zeldin-budget-trump-congress-ec14adaa7fb9b39fd42afb3c7ac26122
AP:
“You do not have the right to say climate change does not exist, that it’s a hoax,” DeLauro said.
Zeldin said she should know about major Supreme Court decisions. “You’re just somebody who likes to have the microphone on.”
DeLauro said the administration’s behavior was “arrogant” and that it was ”making a mockery of what the agencies are all about.”
“The budget proposal reads like a climate change deniers’ manifesto,” said Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee. At a hearing Monday, she asked how the EPA can justify abandoning its duty to protect people in the United States “under the false flag of economic growth?”
The EPA has proposed rescinding a landmark finding that climate change is dangerous, loosening rules from the Biden administration limiting pollution from coal plants, and proposing to scrap greenhouse gas emission limits for certain vehicles.
In response to DeLauro, Zeldin asked where the Clean Air Act mentions fighting climate change and whether she had heard of a recent Supreme Court decision that restricted the EPA’s authority to write aggressive regulations.