BREAKING : Trump Plans to Cut EPA by 2 BILLION Dollars
President Trump wants to slash bloated government programs, starting with the Environmental Protection Agency.
Trump is looking to cut the belligerent department by $2 million dollars and slash 3,000 jobs.
From 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.
“There’s going to have to be some serious thought here,” said Ebell, who headed Trump’s EPA transition team. “They’re going to have to figure out to make these cuts.”
Trump’s plan to cut EPA’ budget 24 percent mirrors recommendations given to him by the agency transition team. That plan advised cuts outside of state and tribal grants, which make up about 43 percent of EPA’s budget.
In that case, EPA will have to cut 24 percent from its $4.6 billion budget for federal programs, payroll and contracts. That‘s effectively a 42 percent budget cut once state and tribal grants are excluded.
Ebell said Trump will likely cut EPA climate programs, like he promised on the campaign trail, but could also end up laying off agency staffers in D.C. or reduce the size of field offices. Top officials told Axios to expect “massive, transformational cuts, particularly to climate-change programs.”
“Businesses have to do this all the time,” Ebell said.“The federal government never has to undergo this market discipline.
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I think this is one area that has far too many regulations that are not needed or duplicates of another regulation, so I think they can do same with less, thus saving tax payer money for things that are needed.
I consulted there for a while, the waste turned my stomach – I reported to the Central Database Administrator who didn’t really know what a database was, I was approached by many to fix broken systems or ones that would never work (poor design), and was offered guaranteed long contracts to get some of thes guys asses out of the sling and allow them to keep their budget. Worse than other Agencies I worked for (NASA, etc), all similar but EPA the worst.