Washington, D.C. – In a scathing takedown of government waste, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin gave Fox News viewers a front-row seat to the absurdity of a $4 million taxpayer-funded museum that he’s now shutting down. During Monday’s episode of The Ingraham Angle, Zeldin took host Laura Ingraham on a tour of the one-room, 1,595-square-foot EPA museum—a pet project of the Biden administration that he called out as a shrine to “climate change and environmental justice.” The video, shared on X by @epaleezeldin, has conservatives cheering and liberals fuming as Zeldin dismantles what he sees as a monument to ideological bias and fiscal irresponsibility.
“We’re in one room that is less than 1,600 square feet,” Zeldin began, his tone a mix of disbelief and disdain. He quickly zeroed in on the museum’s skewed narrative, pointing to a display that skipped straight from Barack Obama’s administration to Joe Biden’s, completely erasing the environmental achievements of President Donald Trump’s first term. “You’ll see all sorts of time missing,” Zeldin noted, highlighting how the museum ignored milestones like emissions reductions and the first nationwide action plan to tackle PFAS under Trump.
Moving through the space, Zeldin gestured to exhibit after exhibit fixated on “climate change and environmental justice,” which he described as little more than a front for political graft. “Over the course of this last administration, all this talk about environmental justice and climate change—it was really to justify giving out tens of billions of dollars to their friends through self-dealing, conflicts of interest, and unqualified recipients,” he told Ingraham. The host couldn’t help but laugh as Zeldin marveled at the cost. “I don’t even know how the heck they needed to spend $4 million for this one room,” he said, shaking his head.
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I announced today that this one-room, $4M Biden EPA shrine to climate change and environmental justice is officially closed! Almost nobody visited this 1.6k sq ft museum. I’ll take EVERY step possible to save precious tax dollars. pic.twitter.com/Ub4u7oB5pv
— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) April 1, 2025
The museum, which saw fewer than 2,000 visitors between May 2024 and February 2025, cost taxpayers an additional $600,000 annually to operate—a price tag Zeldin deemed indefensible. “We’re shutting this museum down,” he declared, delivering the news with a smirk. “The taxpayer wins. Enough of this partial, biased, EPA history.” The announcement aligns with Zeldin’s broader mission to slash wasteful spending at the EPA, where he’s already canceled over $22 billion in questionable grants and contracts since taking the helm.
Zeldin’s tour is a masterclass in exposing the kind of government excess that conservatives have long decried. As Mark Twain once quipped, “Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” Ronald Reagan put it even more bluntly in 1986: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.’” Zeldin and Ingraham’s shared laughter during the segment captured the absurdity of it all—a $4 million boondoggle for a museum nobody visited, peddling a one-sided narrative. For Trump supporters, Zeldin’s decision to shut it down isn’t just a win; it’s a satisfying jab at the left’s obsession with “cult science.” And as the doors close on this Biden-era relic, conservatives are left with one clear message: keep laughing—and keep cutting.
