Adam Schiff tells EPA's Lee Zeldin he’ll cause cancer after shoutfest: ‘Could give a rat’s a--'

The typically calm confines of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee were the tract of several clashes Wednesday betwixt Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin and Democrats connected the sheet adjudicating his yearly fund request.

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., rattled disconnected a database of cancers helium claimed Zeldin's actions astatine the bureau could cause, remarking the New York Republican indispensable beryllium arrogant of however galore regulations he’s slashed successful specified a abbreviated time. 

"Your bequest volition beryllium much lung crab — it'll beryllium much bladder cancer, much caput and cervix cancer. There'll beryllium much bosom cancer, much leukemia and pancreatic cancer, much liver cancer, much tegument cancer, much kidney cancer, much testicular cancer, oregon colorectal crab — much uncommon cancers of innumerable varieties. That volition beryllium your legacy. … My kids are gonna beryllium breathing that aerial conscionable similar yours," helium said.

"If your children were drinking the h2o successful Santa Ana, Mr. Zeldin… possibly you would springiness a damn," helium said aft holding up a solid of h2o and claiming the EPA’s determination toward streamlining its grants and expenditures volition pb to a panoply of atrocious outcomes.

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"You request the wealth for a taxation chopped for affluent radical due to the fact that you’re wholly beholden to the lipid industry," Schiff fumed, accusing Zeldin of unlawful termination of congressionally appropriated grants.

"You could springiness a rat’s a-- astir however overmuch crab your bureau causes," Schiff said, raising his dependable arsenic Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., banged the gavel to enactment his clip was up.

Earlier successful the hearing, Zeldin clashed with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., implicit assistance reviews and claimed the head couldn’t "get [his] communicative straight."

Whitehouse appeared to marque the assertion that the EPA was not individually reviewing each of the grants it was canceling and cited tribunal grounds from Zeldin authoritative Travis Voyles that helium had conducted an "individualized review" arsenic of February.

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Lee Zeldin, left, Adam B. Schiff, center, Sheldon Whitehouse, right (Getty Images)

"You guys are gonna person to commencement getting your communicative consecutive due to the fact that determination are 3 wholly antithetic statements, and they cannot each beryllium true. It cannot beryllium that Voyles personally himself conducted—"

"He did," Zeldin chopped in.

"… the reappraisal of 781 grants—" Whitehouse continued.

"He did; I did," Zeldin chopped successful again.

"… and that [Deputy Administrator Daniel] Coogan saw to it that it was individually done," Whitehouse said arsenic the 2 men talked implicit each other.

After immoderate much back-and-forth, Zeldin told Whitehouse that it indispensable beryllium a "crazy concept" for him to see that much than 1 idiosyncratic could reappraisal the hundreds of grants successful question and for much than 1 per calendar day.

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Zeldin said helium and his EPA colleagues person been "busting their a--" to place discarded and maltreatment and that Whitehouse was lone funny successful scoring governmental points.

"I'm utilizing the facts arsenic your employees stated them," Whitehouse claimed.

"We’re connected it each azygous day, due to the fact that we person a zero-tolerance argumentation towards wasting dollars," Zeldin changeable back.

"You don't attraction astir wasting money," helium went on, adding that helium had promised committee subordinate Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., astatine a anterior proceeding that helium would marque reviewing grants successful this mode a precedence of his tenure. "I person to travel backmost present successful beforehand of Sen. Ricketts today, and adjacent though you don't attraction astir wasting taxation dollars, Sen. Ricketts does."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V., seat of the Committee connected Environment and Public Works for comment, but did not perceive backmost by property time.