The USDA secretary is a dangerous religious zealot like Pete Hegseth

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5. Me: Still enraged

James G. Watt (1981–1983): Reagan's first Interior Secretary, known for his highly polarizing pro-development agenda and contentious relationship with environmentalists, which ultimately led to his resignation.

"I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns, whatever it is we have to manage with a skill to leave the resources needed for future generations."

While Watt did not preach environmental destruction based on the Second Coming, his actual policies were aggressively anti-preservation. He believed the environment should be managed primarily for economic growth, famously declaring, "We will mine more, drill more, cut more timber." He drastically accelerated oil, gas, and coal leasing on public lands and listed fewer endangered species than almost any other Interior Secretary—actions he justified through free-market capitalism and a biblical belief that God provided natural resources explicitly for human use.