Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., plans to blast plans from the Fish and Wildlife Service to offer federal employees training in “ecogrief” to cope with the trauma of climate change.
According to the Washington Times, the federal agency’s southwest region is planning to give staffers “a chance to define what they mean by ecological grief, space to examine their emotional reactions and tools to grapple with those feelings.”
“This 4-hour workshop seeks to normalize the wide range of emotional responses that conservationists experience while empowering participants to act while taking care of themselves,” read a notice reviewed by the Washington Times. “The workshop is intended for those experiencing ecological grief and for those who wish to support them.”
In prepared remarks shared exclusively with The Federalist, Hageman condemns the workshops as a malicious waste of taxpayer dollars.
“This would be comical if it was a private company wasting its own money, but it’s not — it is our federal government — and that makes it our money that is being misappropriated and used to further a political agenda,” Hageman plans to say. That agenda, charges Hageman, is meant to “increase the cost of putting food on your table, a roof over your head, and gas in your car.”
“Ecogrief is admittedly a smaller budget item than many other woke programs,” the speech reads. “That, however, is no reason to ignore what it portends, or the real underlying agenda being pushed by this federal agency.”
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