Earthjustice: Trump’s Dirty Budget Writes Assault on Environmental Safeguards into Law

Proposal would hand billions of dollars more for president’s hateful border wall and strip funding for environmental enforcement

2019-03-12

The Trump administration released its FY 2020 budget proposal, a document littered with giveaways to the super-wealthy and big polluter interests.

President Trump’s dirty budget includes over $8 billion more in funding for the hateful, unnecessary wall the administration is currently employing unconstitutional means to build. The proposal also contains a 31% cut to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, even at a time when EPA penalties for corporate polluters are down by over 90%. Virtually every key agency tasked with safeguarding public health and the environment faces reductions under the proposal.

Source: Earthjustice