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US EPA closes its museum, says administrator

US EPA closes its museum, says administrator

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Monday that the EPA would close a one room museum in the agency's Washington headquarters. He said the museum cost $4 million to construct and $600,000.000 to run each year.

The EPA administrator stated that the museum had attracted less than 2,000 people since its opening last year. He called it "another wasteful example" of the Democratic administration of former President Joe Biden.

The Biden Administration spent $4 million in tax dollars to build a museum that tells a selective history of the EPA. The museum costs $600K a year to run, even though there were only 1,909 visitors in the past 9 months. Zeldin announced on X that "Today we're closing it".

Since taking office in January, Donald Trump, the Republican president, has tried to cut costs, and has gutted many federal agencies and programs. This resulted in the demise of diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives, and the firing of tens and thousands of federal employees.

Trump also attacked museums and cultural institutions, becoming chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He issued an executive order accusing the Smithsonian Institution – the vast museum-research complex that is a premier exhibit space for U.S. culture and history – of spreading 'anti American ideology'.

(source: Reuters)