I knew that President Trump was planning to cut the Environmental Protection Agency's budget but I did not know it would be this much - very happy! From The Daily Caller:
Trump Pushes For Massive Budget, Staff Cuts At EPA
President Donald Trump will ask Congress to cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) budget 24 percent, or nearly $2 billion, according to sources familiar with the budget plans.
The White House sent draft budget plans to agency heads Monday, detailing billions of dollars in cuts to a wide range of federal programs. Cuts to EPA and other agencies will fund a $54 billion increase in defense spending.
A source informed of the budget plans told E&E News Trump will push for a nearly $2 billion cut to EPA’s $8.1 billion budget. A source told Politico Trump also “proposed reducing EPA’s 15,000-strong workforce to 12,000, a level not seen since the mid-1980s.”
That is a great start. Their original mandate was very good - the US had serious pollution problems. They did not stop once these had been cleaned up and they extended themselves into every aspect of people's lives. Time to dial them back to their core commitments.
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