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Details are in: EPA cut by 25%; State by 20%More details are coming out about President Trump’s plans for drastic cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency and State Dept. The EPA’s budget would be reduced by 25%, and the State Dept.’s by 20%, in fiscal 2018, under the administration’s preliminary plans, according to published reports. The EPA’s programs for climate change mitigation, water quality and air quality would be slashed, and about 3,000 jobs would be eliminated, the New York Times reported. The EPA’s budget would fall from $8.2 billion to $6.1 billion. The Great Lakes restoration budget would be nearly eliminated with a 97% cut. Environmental justice programs would be cut by 79% and the climate protection budget would drop by 70%. Lawmakers, environmentalists and others are protesting the severe cuts, saying they would damage clean air and water efforts and create substantial numbers of job losses. Programs for cleaning the Chesapeake Bay, San Francisco Bay and other bodies of water would be substantially trimmed. At the State Dept., the goal is to cut 20% in fiscal 2018 and 37% over three years, according to an Associated Press report. Democrats and some senior Republicans, national security experts and military commanders strongly disagreed with the proposed cuts to foreign aid and diplomacy. The State Dept.’s budget would drop from $50.1 billion this year to $40 billion in fiscal 2018 and $32 billion in fiscal 2020. Most USAID funding is expected to be cut. There would be major hits to State’s and EPA’s personnel budgets. As for small business contracting, the State Dept. had 44% of its eligible contracts go to small businesses in fiscal 2015, totaling $1.7 billion; EPA had 40% of its eligible spending go to small vendors, totaling $620 million.
More information: NYT article: http://goo.gl/sVRlgu
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