The Looming "Schumer Shutdown"
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Hugh discusses the EPA under President Trump, the Schumer shutdown, and Left wing violence, and talks with Lee Zeldin, Sen. Tom Cotton, Noah Rothman, Josh Kraushaar, Bethany Mandel, Jim Talent, and David Drucker.
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| 0:47.6 | I'm joined now by Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldman, an old friend of the program. |
| 0:53.5 | Mr. Administrator, |
| 0:54.3 | welcome back. Great to see you. Congratulations. You're doing great stuff over at EPA. |
| 0:58.8 | Thank you. It's great to be with you, Hugh. Well, rather than throw softballs, though, |
| 1:02.8 | I want to throw four hard questions at you in the 10 minutes I've got. Number one, I read your |
| 1:07.7 | March 7th policy on elevation. You know, I spent 25 years working with Region 9. |
| 1:13.8 | Elevation routinely abused my clients. |
| 1:16.4 | They would elevate 404 permits. |
| 1:18.7 | They would elevate this. |
| 1:19.6 | They would elevate that. |
| 1:20.9 | Why not put a policy into place that no one gets to elevate anything unless Lee |
| 1:25.9 | Zeldon approves it first. |
| 1:28.6 | And if like challenge flags in the NFL, if they try and elevate the wrong things twice, |
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