Trump’s budget will have major cuts to EPA, State Department

It’s hard to know how much President Trump had to do with specifics, both because he’s not a “details guy” and he has few entrenched political beliefs.

“The president’s budget proposal is simply that – a proposal”.

Sierra Club legislative director Melinda Pierce said that “Secretary of Defense James Mattis has made it clear that to protect our national security, we have to tackle the climate crisis”.

Under the proposed blueprint, the administration would boost spending on the Department of Veterans Affairs by 6 percent.

But this preliminary outline of the nation’s future spending is a good indicator of where Trump’s priorities are.

Trump is proposing to eliminate federal funding to the East-West Center.

Trump’s proposal would slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency and the State Department by 31 percent and 28 percent, respectively.

More than 50 environmental programs would be eliminate under the spending plan, including the Energy Star initiative.

Community Development Block Grant program: One of HUD’s longest continuously run programs “is not well-targeted to the poorest populations”, according to the Trump administration.

Trump’s proposal to allocate an extra $52 billion to the existing $587 billion defense budget is the highest single-year increase the department has seen.

The draft does not specifically account for the National Science Foundation, which has a budget of $7.5 billion, though it might fall under a miscellaneous spending category that has not yet been detailed.

Nonetheless, advocates say, it’s too early to tell what that might mean given the limited information in the skinny budget.

The Energy Department’s Office of Science would see its $5 billion budget cut by almost 20 percent, while the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy would see its $300 million budget zeroed out. The money would allow the United States to hire 500 more Border Patrol agents and 1,000 more Immigration and Customs Enforcement workers next year. The new budget would eliminate 3,200 of the agency’s jobs, or about 20 percent of its current workforce.

The administration’s budget proposal set federal employee unions afire with discontent over what they called “anemic levels of funding”.

The State Department’s core programs face a billion cut.

“I am concerned about the grants that have been targeted, especially around water infrastructure, and those very important state revolving funds”, Pruitt said. This program provides health care for people with HIV who are uninsured.

In the proposed form, the new budget would discontinue funding for Obama’s signature Clean Power Plan, created to combat climate change by reducing emission of carbon dioxide from power plants. PEPFAR, which began under President George W. Bush, is widely regarded as exceptionally successful in the world of global health.