The GOP spending bill revealed on Sunday that it would make major budget cuts to the Biden administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to the text of the bill.
The financing invoice — which must pass Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown — proposes to cut fiscal year 2024 funding for the EPA by 10%. The legislation would give the agency nearly $3 billion less than President Joe Biden requested in his budget request.
In total, the bill would allocate $9.158 billion to the agency to carry out its business in fiscal year 2024, according to its text. This figure is $976.5 million below the EPA's enacted budget for fiscal year 2023, seconds on the agency's website.
The EPA has been an active bureaucratic player in the Biden administration's massive climate agenda, enacting a host of rigorous regulations to limit the use of fossil fuels and shelling hundreds of millions of grant dollars to facilitate climate-related initiatives.
In addition to cutting the EPA budget, the proposed appropriations package would also reduce the Biden administration's request”environmental justice” budget of about $275 million and includes a provision for prohibition the sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to Chinese companies.
The agency's budget has increased every fiscal year since 2017, according to its website. The EPA is looking to add hundreds of employees to its ranks to help implement programs created by the bipartisan infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Biden's signature climate bill. seconds in E&E News.
Neither the EPA nor the White House immediately responded to requests for comment.
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