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Home Front: Politix
POTUS Wants To Cut EPA's Budget By $2 Billion, Cut 3,000 Staff
2017-02-28
[Daily Caller] 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."

"You’re going to have to make reductions," Myron Ebell, director of global warming and energy policy at the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Posted by:Besoeker

#15  Don't stop with just the EPA. I'd LOVE for Trump to target the CDC. They somehow lost their focus, and now instead of preparing (rightly) to deal with whatever REAL "disease" might threaten the health of this country, the CDC now spends far too much time and money imagining that THEY are the NAGS that should lecture us on salt consumption, guns, etc.

"Mission creep" is a serious problem found in virtually every government agency.
Posted by: Crusader   2017-02-28 20:38  

#14  He's also rescinding their water grab whereby they had control and usage denial of every "navigable" water including stock ponds, puddles, that sweat on your brow...
Posted by: Frank G   2017-02-28 19:21  

#13  Close it down and let states handle it
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-02-28 16:57  

#12  I agree with Darth up to a point, but, while we don't need any more Love Canals we don't need any more Animas Rivers either. Animas River is what you get when a bureaucracy out grows its britches.

And growth is the raison d'etre of any bureaucracy......and the graft that comes with it.

Posted by: AlanC   2017-02-28 15:32  

#11  Actually I think the planned budget savings for this and a few others (plus foreign Aid cuts) were going to the Defense Department increases Trump wanted.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-02-28 14:12  

#10  Unfortunately an organization like the EPA really is needed.

Until they try to regulate every property that has a puddle on it. And put family farms out of business when they let a field lie fallow because they define that to be a "change" in how the land is used and therefore they own it. Fuc& them.
Posted by: gorb   2017-02-28 12:30  

#9  Unfortunately an organization like the EPA really is needed. Its just that like all b'acracys it turns into an excercise in Empire Building. Their function should be a branch of the Dept of Interior. The reason it or something like it is needed we all know some business's would be perfectly willing to dump whatever they damn well please into the environment. We've had enough Love Canals
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2017-02-28 11:15  

#8  Our government has grown without bound and spent money like junkies except that money is their fix. For too long, the Beltway Party has tried to solve unemployment problems by hiring bureaucrats at the expense of everything else. They have managed to strangle private business with too many ridiculous regulations.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-02-28 10:06  

#7  I love the idea but does anyone actually think the graft merchants of the GOPe in the congress will go along with it?

If they want to keep their phony bologna jobs they will...

Seriously, I doubt congress will cut that much. To much too fast and change scares them. I wouldn't be surprised to see a 1 billion dollar cut though.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-02-28 09:41  

#6  Next legislation controlling the number of senior officials each Department can have, they've been doing it with the military for generations.

Eliminating those positions would go some way towards reversing the midnight appointments of political appointees to permanent civil service posts.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2017-02-28 08:44  

#5  I love the idea but does anyone actually think the graft merchants of the GOPe in the congress will go along with it?
Posted by: AlanC   2017-02-28 08:08  

#4  Yes, choke the purse strings. Next legislation controlling the number of senior officials each Department can have, they've been doing it with the military for generations.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-02-28 07:54  

#3  Bricks! Spend it on bricks for the wall.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-28 07:37  

#2  good. cut off any staff involved in the climate change scam.

that money can be better spent on fusion research
Posted by: anon1   2017-02-28 07:26  

#1  EPA.gov, topics A-Z
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-02-28 07:13  

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