Trump's budget aims to shorten billions from environmental programs

EPA budget by almost 55%, national parks by 25% in Trump's proposed expenditure plan.

If you develop a final federal budget, you will always be twisted with arm clouds and other negotiation tactics, since everyone is used for their priorities. The initial budget proposal, which will be published in early May at the beginning of May, remains far from the final conclusion.

However, select a topic in connection with nature conservation, environmental protection, climate change or weather, and it is not difficult to find someone who deals with the cuts that the Trump management suggests to reduce the federal budget.

Overall, President Donald Trump's proposed budget recommends protecting more than 32 billion US dollars over the surveillance of weather, oceans and the atmosphere for surveillance, oceans and the atmosphere that protect natural and historical resources, parks and nature reserves. The cuts reflect a number of measures that have already been taken by the federal authorities and the Ministry of the President of the government.

The Environmental Protection Agency, for example, faces a planned reduction of 54.5% and takes its budget to a lowest level when Ronald Reagan was president. The proposed cuts in other environmental expenses are between 15% and 55% in the federal authorities.

Democrats, former federal scientists and representative groups say that the cuts reset the efforts of the country to combat climate change, leave the country's environmental satellite programs behind and increase pollution and harmful emissions.

The White House said that its overall budget would “save the taxpayer $ 163 billion in wasteful expenses” and “deliver historical increases for defense and border security”. The president's supporters say that such cuts have to happen if the nation will ever pay off their debts.

The reduction of the federal deficit through budget cuts is crucial, said Diana Fellgott-Roth, director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative thought factory that designed the 2025 project. She was one of his many authors.

The President's budget includes “many cuts in offices in which renewable energies as well as social and ecological justice deal,” she said. “We have a public debt of 36 trillion dollars and a deficit of 2 trillion US dollars. We shouldn't spend money on these things.”

“We would like to have a tax -free budget, just like households have a tax -free budget.”

Trump can compensate for the budget by reducing social security and medicar, she said. “But during the campaign, the President said that he would not shorten these programs … he fulfills his promises.”

Activists see a “striking blow”

However, a wide range of nature conservation and environmental representatives argues that the president's budget could have devastating effects in the coming years and that there are better ways to reduce federal expenses. The cuts are on months of reducing employees in which the workforce reported today in some agencies.

The budget proposal is: “Another clear signal for how far this administration is willing to tear off the critical infrastructure that supports our esteemed public countries and wild animals,” said Robert Dewey, Vice President for Government Relations from Wildlife Defenders. “The Trump administration makes a serious mistake by reducing programs and employees in the name of efficiency and would make a catastrophic blow to the agencies who are charged with the preservation of endangered species and habitats.”

Democrats' ranking in the house and the Senate swore to work against some of the budget cuts.

“Trump's budget – bought and paid for by his megadonian fossil fuels – would be an unrestricted catastrophe for everyone except the looters and pollution,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island, the top democrat in the environmental and public work committee, in a press release.

With the cuts of the EPA budget, the “most dangerous industries would spit out the cancer-related pollution and greenhouse gases into our air and tighten climate for everything, from insurance to food”.

Here are some examples of important cuts:

Ministry of the Interior

In the inner department, which includes the National Park Service, the fish and wildlife service and the Geological Survey, the budget would be reduced by almost a third, although it is intended to take on services that are now provided by other agencies. The budget would decrease from US dollars from $ 17 billion next year to $ 12 billion.

National Parks Advocacy groups quickly caused concern about reducing the budget of more than 1 billion US dollars, a reduction of 25%. The budget also contained a proposal to hand over “many” of the smaller, less visited 433 parks by giving them to states to manage itPresent Although it did not indicate how many or which.

At the US Geological Survey, 564 million US dollars for university subsidies and programs would be removed that concentrate on “social agendas” such as climate change instead of “the dominance in energy and critical mineralsPresent“According to the household document.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration office, which monitors protected types of sea such as whales and sea turtles, are merged with an office that performs similar functions for land and freshwater types at fish and wildlife service, which is planned for an average of 37 million US dollars. This concept has been discussed among the agencies for years.

The merger is “in accordance with the efforts of the president to improve performance and reduce the federal bureaucracy and its deregulation agenda,” said the White House.

The administration's budget also announced plans to create a new “Federal Wildland Fire Service” in the inner department. It would require forest fire and fire fighting in the US Forest Service, which has been under the Ministry of Agriculture for 120 years and are merged with employees with similar tasks at four agencies in the inner department.

Environmental protection authority

The budget of the Environmental Protection Agency would shy away from $ 9.1 billion to $ 4.2 billion.

The cuts would end the scholarships of 1 billion US dollars of states. Almost $ 500 million would remove or reduce three grant programs that the administration describes as “radical environmental rights work, wax-climate research and distorted, overly careful modeling that influences the regulations”.

Two additions are found in these environmental areas. 9 million US dollars would be added to a budget of more than 100 million US dollars for the drinking water program and 27 million US dollars for a scholarship program for indigenous tribes to maintain water and wastewater infrastructure, which increases the budget of the program several times.

National Oceanian and atmospheric administration

A large number of “air-conditioned” research, data and subsidy programs would be terminated in the NOAA, which reduces the budget by $ 1.3 billion. The cuts also include Noaa's climate adaptation partnerships.

The proposal would calve back the planned replacement for the existing geostationary environmental satellites of the NOAA. The system provides a variety of public data for weather observation and modeling as well as other types of earth, atmospheric and sun data. Plans for the replacement had added improved images and compositions as well as additional instruments to monitor the atmosphere and the ocean. The Trump proposal would also terminate contracts for what the administration described as “unnecessary climate measurements”.

Craig McLean, former chief scientist at NOAA and former deputy administrator for research, is one of the regulations through the efforts to withdraw the instrumentation of the planned new satellite system. It “seems to increase naive assumption that satellites only support the weather mission and ignore the ability of satellite -based sensors to support our understanding of ocean sciences and changes in the earth and similarly in the atmosphere,” he said.

Energy Ministry

Although the so -called “Green New Deal” was never adopted by the congress, the President's budget provides several indications of the “Green New Scam” in his proposal to shave money from the energy department's budget.

It is proposed to terminate more than 15 billion US dollars to funds that have been assigned to renewable energy sources from the non -partisan infrastructure law 2021.

More than 2.5 billion US dollars would be reduced from the office for energy efficiency and renewable energies that monitors the “Energy Star” program of the department, and the budget debt for unpopular regulations on gas stoves and light bulbs. In addition, $ 389 million is cut off from the environmental management program, which monitors the waste adjustment at 14 active cleaning locations.

Other proposed spending shortages:

∎ Ministry of Agriculture: The budget reduces environmental costs by more than $ 2 billion, e.g. B. $ 754 million for a program that offers technical support for property owners who want to maintain and maintain natural resources in their country. The document notes that the budget supports the efforts of the administration to “improve forest management” and to increase domestic wood production.

∎ NASA: In the space agency, their programs in connection with earth science and climate change would be reduced by 24.3%, a reduction of US $ 24.8 billion to $ 18.8 billion. It would eliminate $ 1.1 billion for “satellites of climate monitoring with a low priority” and restructure the next Mission of Landsat. The mission proposed for the start in 2030-2031 would have continuedD The “longest space recording of the earth's surface” and the data for water quality, harvest production, critical mineral mapping and ice and snow dynamics expanded, according to the national website. The budget document indicates that NASA will examine “cheaper options” to maintain Landsat images.

Dinah Voyles powder covers climate change, the wildlife and the environment for USA Today. Reach it at dpulver@usatoday.com or @dinahvp on bluesky or x or dinahvp.77 on signal.