As Administration Pursues ANWR Drilling, Trump Official Accuses Federal Employees of Creating ‘Road Bumps’

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A top Trump administration political appointee is complaining that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees aren’t eager to follow the president’s order to hold oil lease sales in part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. “You could just tell from all of the nonverbal communication going on in the room that they were not happy to see us, they were not happy to talk about this, they still weren’t necessarily prepared to accept this new reality,” Joe Balash said.

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