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Congressman Lieu Statement on Trump Banning EPA Employees from Social Media and Speaking to the Press

Statement

By: Ted Lieu
By: Ted Lieu
Date: Jan. 24, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Executive Branch

Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding the news that President Trump has banned employees of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from posting on social media and speaking to the press.

"Today President Trump*** banned EPA employees from posting on social media and speaking to the press. This is a move straight out of Orwell's 1984. Iconic American innovation and discovery have been founded on science and intellectual inquiry. It's bad enough that Trump -- who had an Inauguration size smaller than Obama and Carter -- denies the irrefutable facts of climate change, but it is downright perilous to American democracy to restrict access to a free and open exchange of ideas. The work by the EPA is a vanguard against environmental and public health ruin. We are witnessing an American tragedy when the American President tries to suppress the truth on climate change by waging war on the free press. Vladimir Putin would be proud of President Trump today."


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