{"id":1004163,"date":"2019-04-09T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1004163"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:04:10","slug":"wheeler-will-have-to-defend-trumps-devastating-epa-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/wheeler-will-have-to-defend-trumps-devastating-epa-budget-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheeler Will Have To Defend Trump\u2019s Devastating EPA Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler testifying before Congress today, here\u2019s a look at some of the many devastating cuts in Trump\u2019s budget proposal that he has to defend:<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s budget would gut the EPA, slashing the agency\u2019s budget by nearly a third \u2013 the largest cut to any agency.<\/p>\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThis year the Environmental Protection Agency \u2014 one of the president\u2019s favored political targets \u2014 was subject to some of the most severe cuts. Trump\u2019s budget would reduce EPA funding $2.8 billion, a 31 percent cut from its current budget.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s budget would cut funding for programs to combat climate change and support environmental science.<\/p>\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThe administration, for instance, would cut the EPA\u2019s Global Change Research office, which exists to provide scientific information to policymakers about the threats posed by climate change. Employees of the office worked on the National Climate Assessment released last fall, which warned of growing impacts of climate change, and which Trump dismissed.\u201d<\/p>\n

ThinkProgress<\/a>: \u201cResearch grants from the Science to Achieve Results program, or STAR, are also being targeted for elimination. STAR offers fellowships and grants in environmental science and engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump proposed dramatic budget cuts to programs aimed at cleaning up our waterways, including the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n

Detroit News<\/a>: \u201cPresident Donald Trump’s latest budget proposes a 5 percent reduction in non-defense spending, including a 90 percent cut for a popular Great Lakes cleanup program that bipartisan Michigan lawmakers pledged to fight.\u00a0 Funding for the $300 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative would be cut by $270 million to $30 million under the budget released Monday \u2014 the third year in a row the Trump budget team proposed cuts to the program.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Baltimore Sun<\/a>: \u201cThe cuts would slash EPA spending on its Chesapeake Bay Program from $73 million to $7.3 million. The program coordinates collaboration among six states and the District of Columbia, the federal government and the Chesapeake Bay Commission to uphold a \u2018pollution diet\u2019 established for the bay in 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThen there are proposed numerous eliminations of entire environmental programs, such as funding for state radon-detection initiatives; to work on improving water quality in the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Champlain, Puget Sound and other water bodies around the country; and a program that offers communities grants for lead-reduction projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s budget would cut funding for the EPA\u2019s forensics efforts, which could hinder the agency\u2019s civil and criminal enforcement investigations.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cThe administration\u2019s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal would cut a fifth of the funding for the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s forensics efforts, which support its civil and criminal enforcement investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ahead of EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler testifying before Congress today, here\u2019s a look at some of the many devastating cuts in Trump\u2019s budget proposal that he has to defend:   Trump\u2019s budget would gut the EPA, slashing the agency\u2019s budget by nearly a third \u2013 the largest cut to any agency. Washington Post: \u201cThis year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWheeler Will Have To Defend Trump\u2019s Devastating EPA Budget Cuts - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/wheeler-will-have-to-defend-trumps-devastating-epa-budget-cuts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-04-09T13:30:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:04:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/wheeler-will-have-to-defend-trumps-devastating-epa-budget-cuts\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/wheeler-will-have-to-defend-trumps-devastating-epa-budget-cuts\/\",\"name\":\"Wheeler Will Have To Defend Trump\u2019s Devastating EPA Budget Cuts - 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