Former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin has been picked to hitch President-elect Donald Trump’s administration because the Environmental Safety Company (EPA) administrator.
Trump confirmed the information in a press release Monday afternoon, writing partially, “Lee, with a really robust authorized background, has been a real fighter for America First insurance policies. He’ll guarantee truthful and swift deregulatory choices that will probably be enacted in a strategy to unleash the facility of American companies, whereas on the identical time sustaining the best environmental requirements, together with the cleanest air and water on the planet. He’ll set new requirements on environmental evaluation and upkeep, that may enable the US to develop in a wholesome and well-structured means.”
Trump stated Zeldin has “brilliantly” dealt with some “extraordinarily troublesome and sophisticated conditions.” He stated he’s certain Zeldin will “shortly show to be an ideal contributor!”
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President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., to guide the EPA in Trump’s second administration. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket by way of Getty Photos/File)
The New York Put up was first to report on Trump selecting Zeldin to guide the EPA.
“I am wanting ahead to serving in President Trump’s Cupboard as EPA Administrator. Collectively, we’ll restore American vitality dominance, revitalize our auto business to deliver again American jobs, make the US the worldwide chief of Synthetic Intelligence development, and slash the purple tape holding again American employees from upward financial mobility,” Zeldin advised Fox Information Digital on Monday. “We are going to do that all whereas conserving our surroundings, defending entry to scrub air and water, and holding the American individuals wholesome. I sit up for contributing to President Trump’s agenda to construct a extra affluent future for our nation.”
Zeldin represented New York’s 1st Congressional District from 2015 to 2023, and in 2022 he made a run for governor, garnering probably the most votes for a Republican candidate in 50 years.
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President-elect Trump stated Zeldin “will set new requirements on environmental evaluation and upkeep, that may enable the US to develop in a wholesome and well-structured means.” (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket by way of Getty Photos/File)
Zeldin grew up in Suffolk County, which is identical county he represented as a federal lawmaker.
At age 23, he turned the youngest legal professional in New York State at the moment.
Zeldin served within the Military for 4 years, holding roles like army intelligence officer, prosecutor and army Justice of the Peace.
In 2006, he deployed to Iraq with the 82nd Airborne Division as a part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Right this moment, he continues to function a lieutenant colonel within the U.S. Military Reserve, in keeping with the assertion put out by Trump.
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Lee Zeldin (Fox Information/File)
Zeldin was elected to the New York state Senate in 2010, the place he served till 2014, when he was elected to Congress.
Throughout his eight years working on the U.S. Capitol, Zeldin served on the Home Overseas Affairs and Home Monetary Companies committees.
Whereas in workplace, he championed infrastructure and analysis initiatives just like the preservation of Plum Island and Military Corps of Engineers initiatives.
