You impose this draconian hiring freeze when you have thousands and thousands of positions that are open, and that's going to aggravate a situation in which the agency can't deliver at the level that it should be able it to deliver.
Sarbanes criticizes the hiring freeze for worsening the VA's staffing issues.
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Without the strong and continued investment the EPA has requested for the Chesapeake Bay Program in fiscal year 2024, the risk is we could jeopardize decades of work in collaboration towards the Bay's restoration.
Each of which--each of which--would hamper EPA's ability to regulate air pollution and, unfortunately, continues this Republican agenda of putting Big Oil interests over the interests of the public.
The health of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed can only continue to improve through robust Federal, state, and local partnerships.
They want to be on the field of their democracy. They want to feel like they have some power within their own democracy.
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