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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Case in point:  The completely unserious Interior and Environment budget they just passed.  They just gutted Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management and EPA reducing several agencies to the lowest levels in 30+ years.  EPA budget slashed by 40%, including money intended to go to states to improve drinking water infrastructure and other critical projects.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/house-sends-interior-epa-bill-off-to-uncertain-future/

Yet they barely touch the DoD budget.  BLM and EPA could probably be fully funded using the rounding error and auditing errors in DoD's budget.

This action barely makes any impact at all on the deficit, yet it will make those agencies dysfunctional, slowing down leasing and permitting for minerals, oil and gas, and grazing, it will worsen pollution by undermining monitoring and enforcement of air and water quality issues, it is an attack on tribes and Alaska native communities, it will undermine economic activity on public lands, not just oil and gas but also tourism, hunting and fishing and other outdoor recreation, and many other adverse impacts.  There would be numerous long term consequences, many of them impacting red states the hardest.

Goes to show that it's all about ideology, rather than reality or fiscal sanity.

And again, this budget bill is likely DOA when it arrives in the Senate, and the White House has already issued a statement saying they will veto it.

Yet the unserious, and possibly insane House Republicans went ahead and pushed this garbage anyhow, wasted time, and now we are yet another day closer to a shutdown, because they can't pass a serious or sane budget bill.[/quote]

i appreciate the information and passion OP. [/quote]

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