President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget calls for huge reductions in the Environmental Protection Agency and Energy Department spending in order to pay for wall construction on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Trump administration unveiled its 2020 budget proposal Monday, which calls for cuts in domestic spending while dramatically increasing infrastructure and defense spending.
In one specific piece of the proposal, the president is asking to slash the EPA’s budget by 31 percent — the biggest cut for any of the agencies, according to the Washington Examiner.
Trump’s budget would cut the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office, an office within the Department of Energy, from $2.3 billion to about $700 million — a 70 percent reduction.
At the same time, the president is asking for $8.6 billion in funding for more border wall construction. The additional funds will allow the administration to reach its long-sought goal of completing 722 miles of barrier construction.
However, it’s likely dead-on-arrival in a Congress where Democrats now control the House of Representatives.
The federal government just recently exited out of a historic 35-day shutdown over border wall funding, and those negotiations only produced $1.375 billion in funds for wall construction.
Following the border wall compromise in February, Trump declared a national emergency, allowing him to allocate a total of $8 billion for wall construction.
Democrats of Capitol Hill immediately blasted the president’s latest budget request.
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Climate change is a total fraud and as such all government funding should cease. Illegal immigration from Mexico is a serious threat. According to one newspaper headline 76,000 illegal aliens entered from Mexico in February. Walls do work. Consider the Berlin Wall. Not many got past that. However, a more effective tool would be laws going after the employers of illegal aliens.
Quit wasting money on some rediculous project like renewables and put that money to use safeguarding America from Invasion just like in the classic 60’s Sci Fi TV Series LOST IN SPACE they turned on their Force Field to keep safe from aliens
The Dem’s claim that walls don’t work. Everyone knows that walls do the job that they’re built to do.
The Dem’s claim that windmills and solar panels can replace traditional energy, we just need infinite funding, acreage and patience. Neophyte AO-C is a Molotov cocktail thrown on the Leftist flame – out.
2020 is gonna be a PARTY!