Energy and environment programs escape Trump's ax in spending deal
The Trump administration has been sharpening its budgetary ax for two years, waiting for the chance to chop away at funding for environmental protection and clean energy programs that had been darlings of the previous administration.
Late Wednesday, it was another swing and a miss for the White House.
The tentative $1.3 trillion deal to fund the federal government reached this week by congressional leaders forestalled drastic cuts to programs at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department that the Trump administration demanded in its latest budget request to Congress.
For Democrats who sought preserve energy and environmental programs held over from the Obama administration, the spending package represents a victory — at least until the next budget negotiation.
“Together, we rejected the Trump administration’s proposal to make massive and dangerous budget cuts,” Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico, the top Democrat on the Appropriations subcommittee overseeing the EPA and related agencies, said in a statement Wednesday.
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