<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Excerpt: Under Zinke, the employee said, policy debate has dried up: “We’re supposed to provide back-and-forth perspective, so that you make the best decision based on science and based on the law. But that’s a pretty big struggle right now.” </span><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">The employee went on, “I hunt and fish—I’m actually kind of a redneck. But I believe in the public good and public land. When Trump talks his b.s. about the ‘deep state,’ that’s who he’s referring to. I totally reject that kind of characterization. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">That’s how these guys see it: if you’re not a tool of the most high-powered lobbyists in Washington or following orders, then they really don’t want you around.”</span></div><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/21/trump-vs-the-deep-state" class="">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/21/trump-vs-the-deep-state</a></div></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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