Zeldin cited an example of that wasteful spending: "Millions of tax dollars on a museum to praise environmental justice."
"[It's] the size of a one-bedroom apartment, just blocks from the White House, and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to operate," he said. "And that museum was designed with major gaps in EPA history, mainly between 2016 and January 2021 [the years of the first Trump administration]."
Zeldin said he has worked with "the talented team" at the Department of Government Efficiency to find unnecessary spending.
"I've now canceled over $2 billion in DEI and environmental grants — 2 billion!" he said. "This agency spends nearly $100 million on rent every year for headquarters buildings that have remained overwhelmingly empty. We will pursue efficiencies by reducing our real estate footprint.