Posted on 02/02/2022 9:44:22 AM PST by 11th_VA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not yet have an annual funding appropriation from Congress and, like other federal agencies, is struggling to operate under a continuing resolution (CR) with funding levels the Trump administration agreed to more than a year ago. One dismal "path forward" would be to extend the CR further, to fund EPA for the entire year.
Such a CR would effectively sabotage EPA by providing less than half, in real dollars, the agency's 1980 funding, and a workforce at its smallest level since 1987. It would starve the agency of new resources to begin rebuilding to protect our nation's air, land and water, and to address the existential threat of climate change and the toxic legacy of environmental injustice.
A CR's principal casualty would be $1 billion in increased funding requested in the EPA budget: to meet regulatory deadlines; hire 1000 new employees; boost support for EPA facilities and operations, enforcement and compliance monitoring, as well as science and climate research; and transform EPA's environmental justice program into a central focus of agency work…
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
If we take either the House or Senate in the fall, we can force Trump budgets for the remainder of Biden’s Presidency ….
Problem is that CR also hurts national defense.
Sounds like a good plan to me.
This is almost as good as a balanced budget amendment …
If this becomes a new baseline for defense spending, NDIA says the top-line numbers would reduce by $180 billion and outlays would fall by approximately $155 billion from fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
https://www.ndia.org/about/media/press-releases/2022/1/27/crpaper
I say do it …
Cant hurt National Defense any further than what this admin is already doing or has already done.
Why is the EPA funding this high? We have clean air, we have clean water, we have clean land. All we need from the EPA is steady state, not forcing productive companies to spend increasingly large amounts of money chasing smaller and smaller reductions, which at this point makes no difference to either the environment or the health of people.
What, delayed CRT training?
Proposed FY 2022 appropriations would lift discretionary spending to historic levels. The House and Senate have proposed increasing ordinary discretionary spending by 9 percent relative to last year. If successful, FY 2022 base discretionary spending would be higher than any other time in recent history, adjusted for inflation.
https://www.crfb.org/papers/case-restoring-discretionary-spending-caps
GOP needs to force spending caps again …without Lujan, we can do that
There shouldn’t even be a US EPA. It is a classic example of an extra-Consitutional agency.
“Problem is that CR also hurts national defense.”
My friend, “National Defense” is not doing anything about securing our southern (or northern) border, the alien invasion forces coming across, or the ChiCom produced fentanyl flood killing our fellow citizens.
Perhaps they need a trim as well.
Better yet, bring our folks home and re-deploy them on OUR borders, at OUR airports, guarding OUR coasts, and fixing some vital infrastructure right here at home.
The Bush Doctrine is so last century.
It’s MAGA now.
“...the existential threat of climate change and the toxic legacy of environmental injustice.”
And then there’s the “toxic legacy of environmental injustice”. How is the environment un just? Oh wait. Poor people live in crappier places. Places that people with means don’t care to live in. Isn’t putting up with crappier stuff what being poor means?
National defense pisses away more moeny than it uses beneficially. There is room for cuts.
The EPA is a classic progressive organization. It has no logical “stop” mechanism, so it seeks out missions further and further afield from its original charge. Given the opportunity, it will not stop until it reaches its goal, a total police state. If the air and water were as clean in 1970 as they are now, the whole idea of needing an EPA would have been laughable.
Heaven forbid that the plummeting value of the US Dollar impacts our bureaucratic masters......
Suffering is for the deplorable citizens.
“We have clean air, we have clean water, we have clean land.”
Not according to the leftist and FJB author ... “It would starve the agency of new resources to begin rebuilding to protect our nation’s air, land and water, and to address the existential threat of climate change and the toxic legacy of environmental injustice.”
What is this crap about “begin rebuilding”? What exactly has the EPA been doing for the last year? Also, just love how the tacking on of fake “existential threat of climate change” and fake “environmental injustice” are necessary to EPA’s original mandate to clean-up air, land and water. Givernment is too big to succeed. It never goes away, it just metastisizes.
The waste and corruption in military spending is legendary.
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