"Zeldin Kept Up EPA Roadshow During Shutdown" [1]
"In a sign of the Trump administration’s novel approach to the funding gap, the administrator traveled for 16 days during the shutdown."
"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s travel didn’t cease over what has become the federal government’s longest funding lapse in history.
Zeldin has gone to 11 states and Canada, recording 16 days for travel on his public calendar since the shutdown started Oct. 1, according to a review by POLITICO’s E&E News.
The matter marks another unprecedented aspect of the Trump administration’s novel approach to the appropriations gap, stretching carryover funds to keep EPA open while furloughing staff not working on the president’s priorities of rolling back rules and expediting permits.
Zeldin’s travel also raises questions about whether it contradicts the agency’s own shutdown plan, which said no trips are permitted during the appropriations lapse except for “exempted” work."