President's fiscal 2018 budget would slash EPA spending by 30%

CNN ^ | May 20, 2017 | Miranda Green and Rene Marsh

[Innovative]

President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 budget request would slash EPA spending by almost a third, according to a copy of the President's proposal obtained by CNN.

The budget blueprint, which the White House plans to submit to Congress next week, would cut the EPA's total budget by more than 30% and its operational budget by 35% compared to current funding levels.

[Innovative]

Excellent!

Go, Trump!

[AlmaKing]

When was the last Presidential budget passed?

[EagleUSA]

When something really GOOD happens like this, I get this image of mindless DemocRats flopping around in a hot skillet. I see this as just a first “modification” of groups which cooperated with Obama’s criminal use of the government as a political weapon.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

GW always had a budget.

Obama never did. Having not budget let him spend all he wanted while constantly threatening to shut down the government when he didn’t get his way.

You would think there would be a law that requires a federal budget so you don’t go without one for 8 years.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

As long as it’s another 35% in the next budget.

And the one after that.

And the one after that.....

[Parley Baer]

It is a start. I will take anything we can get for that over bloated agency.

[oincobx]

We need to get this out of the regulatory bureaucracy and back into the courts where it belongs. If your activity imposes upon my property rights, then I simply sue to achieve a remedy.

[AlmaKing]

Obama submitted budgets, but they were voted down 99-0 or 98-0 by the Senate in the middle of the night kind-of-thing.

I’m searching for the last Pres budget that actually got passed.

[cba123]

As long as the next budget FUNDS THE WALL, I am ok.

Fund the wall.

[AlmaKing]

There is a law:

Budget and Accounting Act
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Enacted by the 67th United States Congress Legislative history Signed into law by President Warren G. Harding on June 10, 1921

The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 (Pub.L. 67–13, 42 Stat. 20, enacted June 10, 1921) was landmark legislation that established the framework for the modern federal budget. The act was approved by President Warren G. Harding to provide a national budget system and an independent audit of government accounts. The official title of this act is “The General Accounting Act of 1921”, but is frequently referred to as “the budget act”, or “the Budget and Accounting Act”.[1] This act meant that for the first time, the president would be required to submit an annual budget for the entire federal government to Congress.[2] The object of the budget bill was to consolidate the spending agencies in both the executive and legislative branches of the government.[1]

The act created the Bureau of the Budget, now called the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to review funding requests from government departments and to assist the president in formulating the budget. The OMB mandates that all government estimates, receipts, and expenditures be cleared by the director of the budget. From the director, the estimates go directly to the president and from the president, directly to Congress.[1] In addition, the act created the General Accounting Office, now known as the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the non-partisan audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of Congress, and an agency in the legislative branch of the United States Government.

The act required the head of the GAO, to “investigate, at the seat of government or elsewhere, all matters in relation to the receipt, disbursement, and application of public funds, and shall make to the President ... and to Congress ... reports [and] recommendations looking to greater economy or efficiency in public expenditures”.[3] The name of the General Accounting Office was changed to Government Accountability Office in 2004 to better reflect the mission of the office.[4]

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[vooch]

Vlad,

Yes !

The entire federal government needs to shrink by 30% to eliminate the operating deficit and then shrink another 30% to finally start paying down the debt.

Then it will take 25 years of dogged discipline to pay down the federal
debt

[sickoflibs]

How much will the budget he actually signs cut EPA?

[exDemMom]

You would think there would be a law that requires a federal budget so you don’t go without one for 8 years.

There are laws. Obama simply ignored them.

[Sequoyah101]

A fair to middling start.

[Sequoyah101]

A fair to middling start.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Obama submitted faux budgets. They were never intended for serious consideration. He didn’t want to be bound by a budget.