A Trump official shut down one woke museum that left Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fuming

Three Key Takeaways:

Joe Biden went on a massive socialist spree.

He wasted taxpayer money in ways no one could have dreamed up.

And a Trump official shut down one woke museum that left Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fuming.

Biden’s new EPA Museum shut down

Washington, D.C. is filled with historic monuments and museums.

Former President Joe Biden wanted to add another attraction when he used taxpayer money to open the National Environmental Museum and Education Center.

Biden’s EPA Administrator Michael Regan praised the museum as a place that “chronicles our nation’s work to protect public health and the environment” when it opened in May 2024.

The museum lectured visitors about what they needed to do to save the environment.

It was billed as fun for the whole family with exhibits on electric cars, recycling, composting, and environmental justice.

Kids could learn about how eating a Happy Meal contributes to climate change by producing greenhouse gas emissions from cattle.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that this woke taxpayer-funded museum was being shut down.

The free museum attracted fewer than 2,000 visitors since opening.

“I’m currently standing inside of this museum, which was built and curated by the Biden administration with $4 million in taxpayer dollars,” Zeldin said. “As if this wasn’t enough of a price tag, to fill a room the size of an apartment, this shrine to environmental justice and climate change costs the American taxpayer $600,000 to operate annually.”

It cost taxpayers $315 per visitor to the museum.

“This agency has been spending $123,000 on cleaning, $207,000 for security, $54,000 on maintenance, and an additional $54,000 on storage,” Zeldin said.

It turns out tourists didn’t want to be lectured about why they should drive an electric car or set up a compost heap for coffee grinds.

Taxpayer-funded environmental propaganda

Zeldin called the museum “Biden’s pet project” and noted that it pushed a left-wing political message on climate change and the environment.

Democrats were lavished with praise by the museum.

Functional Government Institute communications director Rod Law praised Zeldin for shutting it down.

“There is something ironic about the EPA wasting money on a museum about itself when it is supposed to be focused on toxic waste,” Law said. “Sadly, promoting special interest climate activism and growing the out-of-touch bureaucracy were hallmarks of the EPA in the Biden administration, and this museum was an unfortunate result of such policy.”

“Administrator Zeldin closing it protects taxpayers, helps return the EPA to its statutory mission of protecting the environment, and abandons past dysfunction and bureaucratic self-promotion,” Law added.

The Biden administration spent more than $1 trillion on green energy and climate change initiatives.

Zeldin has been trying to cut waste, fraud, and abuse at the EPA with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

He’s clawed back $20 billion in EPA grants that were doled out to Democrat-controlled environmental groups, eliminated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at the agency, and rolled back costly regulations.

Joe Biden’s costly climate agenda is getting pared back by the Trump administration.