特朗普任命李·泽尔丁领导环保局，斯蒂芬·米勒担任政策副局长
【中美创新时报2024 年 11 月 11 日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）当选总统唐纳德·特朗普周一任命前众议员李·泽尔丁（Lee Zeldin）领导环境保护局，他将继续与忠实的支持者一起打造未来的政府。美联社记者米歇尔·L·普莱斯对此作了下述报道。
特朗普在一份声明中表示，泽尔丁曾于 2022 年竞选纽约州州长，但未能成功，他将“确保公平、迅速地实施放松管制的决定，以释放美国企业的力量，同时保持最高的环境标准，包括地球上最清洁的空气和水。”
泽尔丁于 2023 年离开国会，出人意料地当选这一职位。他在自己的竞选活动和代表特朗普的公开露面中经常谈论军事、国家安全、反犹太主义、美以关系、移民和犯罪等问题。
他是国会中投票反对认证 2020 年选举结果的共和党人之一。在国会任职期间，他没有在监督环境政策的委员会任职。
2016 年，他推动将长岛海峡约 150 平方英里的联邦水域指定为纽约州和罗德岛州的州管辖范围。他希望开放该地区进行条纹鲈鱼捕捞，这在州水域是允许的，但在联邦地区是禁止的。
特朗普经常提到泽尔丁在 2022 年州长竞选中的表现——共和党人在与州长凯西·霍楚尔的比赛中表现得比预期的要好得多——他坚称自己可以在民主党家乡州具有竞争力。虽然特朗普没有赢得纽约，但他的表现远好于之前的选举，特别是在布朗克斯、布鲁克林和皇后区。
此前，特朗普选择长期顾问、移民强硬派斯蒂芬·米勒担任新政府政策副主管，并提名众议员埃利斯·斯特凡尼克为美国驻联合国大使候选人。
当选副总统 JD Vance 周一在 X 上发布了一条祝贺米勒的任命信息，并表示：“这是总统的又一次绝佳选择。”CNN 最先报道了这一消息。
米勒是特朗普任职时间最长的助手之一，可以追溯到他第一次竞选白宫的时候。他是特朗普第一任期的高级顾问，也是特朗普许多政策决策的核心人物，尤其是在移民问题上，包括特朗普在 2018 年采取的一项威慑计划，将数千个移民家庭分开。
米勒还帮助制定了特朗普的许多强硬演讲，在特朗普第一任期和竞选期间，他经常是这些政策的公开代言人。
离开白宫后，米勒一直担任美国第一法律组织的主席，这是一个由前特朗普顾问组成的组织，是美国公民自由联盟的保守派版本，在言论自由、宗教自由和国家安全等问题上挑战拜登政府、媒体公司、大学和其他机构。
今年，他也经常出现在特朗普的竞选活动中，乘坐特朗普的飞机，经常在特朗普集会的预演中先于他发表讲话。
在竞选最后阶段，米勒在特朗普麦迪逊广场花园的集会上赢得了热烈的欢呼，他告诉人群，“你们的救赎就在眼前”，他表示，“几十年来，这个国家的善良人民一直遭受虐待——他们的工作被抢走，被运往墨西哥、亚洲和外国。他们的亲人的生活被非法移民、犯罪团伙和不属于这个国家的暴徒夺走。”
“今天，我们站在十字路口，”他继续说，将选举描述为“背叛与复兴、自我毁灭与救赎、美国失败与美国胜利之间的选择。”
由于这不是内阁职位，因此任命不需要参议院批准。
美联社记者马修·戴利和泽克·米勒在华盛顿和吉尔·科尔文在纽约对本报道亦有贡献。
题图：前众议员李·泽尔丁于 2024 年 1 月 19 日在新罕布什尔州康科德的集会上发表讲话。马特·鲁尔克/美联社
附原英文报道：
Trump names Lee Zeldin to lead EPA, Stephen Miller to be deputy chief of policy
By MICHELLE L. PRICE The Associated Press,Updated November 11, 2024
Former Representative Lee Zeldin speaks at a rally in Concord, N.H., Jan. 19, 2024.Matt Rourke/Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Monday named former Rep. Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency as he continues to build out his future administration with loyal supporters.
Trump, in a statement, said Zeldin, who mounted a failed bid for governor of New York in 2022, would “ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, including the cleanest air and water on the planet.”
Zeldin, who left Congress in 2023, was a surprising pick for the role. His public appearances both in his own campaigns and on behalf of Trump often had him speaking about issues like the military, national security, antisemitism, U.S.-Israel relations, immigration and crime.
He was among the Republicans in Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 election results. While in Congress, he did not serve on committees with oversight of environmental policy.
In 2016 he pushed to change the designation of about 150 square miles of federal waters in Long Island Sound to state jurisdiction for New York and Rhode Island. He wanted to open the area to striped bass fishing, which is allowed in state waters but banned in the federal area.
Trump often pointed to Zeldin’s performance in the 2022 gubernatorial race — where the Republican did far better than had been expected against Gov. Kathy Hochul — when he insisted he could be competitive in his Democratic home state. While Trump didn’t win New York, he did far better than he had during previous elections, particularly in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.
The announcement comes after Trump selected longtime adviser Stephen Miller, an immigration hard-liner, to be the deputy chief of policy in his new administration and named Rep. Elise Stefanik as his nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Confirming the Miller appointment, Vice President-elect JD Vance posted a message of congratulations Monday on X and said, “This is another fantastic pick by the president.” The announcement was first reported by CNN.
Miller is one of Trump’s longest-serving aides, dating back to his first campaign for the White House. He was a senior adviser in Trump’s first term and has been a central figure in many of his policy decisions, particularly on immigration, including Trump’s move to separate thousands of immigrant families as a deterrence program in 2018.
Miller has also helped craft many of Trump’s hard-line speeches, and was often the public face of those policies during Trump’s first term in office and during his campaigns.
Since leaving the White House, Miller has served as the president of America First Legal, an organization of former Trump advisers fashioned as a conservative version of the American Civil Liberties Union, challenging the Biden administration, media companies, universities and others over issues such as freedom of speech and religion and national security.
He was also a frequent presence during Trump’s campaign this year, traveling aboard his plane and often speaking ahead of Trump during the pre-shows at his rallies.
Miller drew large cheers at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden during the race’s final stretch, telling the crowd that, “your salvation is at hand,” after what he cast as “decades of abuse that has been heaped upon the good people of this nation — their jobs looted and stolen from them and shipped to Mexico, Asia and foreign countries. The lives of their loved ones ripped away from them by illegal aliens, criminal gangs and thugs who don’t belong in this country.”
“We stand here today at a crossroads,” he went on, casting the election as “a choice between betrayal and renewal, between self-destruction and salvation, between the failure of America or the triumph of America.”
Because it is not a Cabinet position, the appointment does not need Senate confirmation.
Associated Press writers Matthew Daly and Zeke Miller in Washington and Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report.
