From The Daily Caller
4:57 PM 03/11/2019 | Energy Jason Hopkins | Energy Investigator
President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget calls for huge reductions in Environmental Protection Agency and Energy Department spending in order to pay for wall construction on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Trump administration unveiled its 2020 budget proposal Monday, which calls for cuts in domestic spending while dramatically increasing infrastructure and defense spending. In one specific piece of the proposal, the president is asking to slash the EPA’s budget by 31 percent — the biggest cut for any of the agencies, according to the Washington Examiner.
Trump’s budget would cut the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office, an office within the Department of Energy, from $2.3 billion to about $700 million — a 70 percent reduction.
At the same time, the president is asking for $8.6 billion in funding for more border wall construction. The additional funds will allow the administration to reach its long-sought goal of completing 722 miles of barrier construction.
However, it’s likely dead-on-arrival in a Congress where Democrats now control the House of Representatives. The federal government just recently exited out of a historic 35-day shutdown over border wall funding, and those negotiations only produced $1.375 billion in funds for wall construction. Following the border wall compromise in February, Trump declared a national emergency, allowing him to allocate a total of $8 billion for wall construction.
Democrats of Capitol Hill immediately blasted the president’s latest budget request.
President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Aug. 21, 2018 in Charleston, West Virginia. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
“President Trump hurt millions of Americans and caused widespread chaos when he recklessly shut down the government to try to get his expensive and ineffective wall, which he promised would be paid for by Mexico,” read a joint statement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “Congress refused to fund his wall and he was forced to admit defeat and reopen the government. The same thing will repeat itself if he tries this again. We hope he learned his lesson.” (RELATED: A Huge Reduction In Troops At The Border Could Happen Quickly)
The budget proposal for the 2020 fiscal year, which ends one month before the presidential election, will likely keep border enforcement a top issue during the presidential election season.
The president wants to spend $200 billion on infrastructure altogether and is also calling for a raise in defense spending to $750 billion — up from $716 billion in 2019.
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That’s a brilliant idea by Trump, build a wall to keep climate change out.
What is best use of limited capital resources, expensive, unreliable, non-dispatchable, interruptible renewables that are unsustainable without subsidies and mandates or the Wall? Are you kidding?
copy/ source?
CO2 “The grand total produced by all living things is estimated to be 440 billion tons per year, or 13 times the amount of carbon dioxide currently being produced by fossil-fuel emissions. Fossil-fuel emissions are less than 10 percent of biological emissions”.
If CO2 really is a problem, wind and solar ain’t the cure. Inlight of the confirming observed information accumulated these past five years, including 1) failed climate models, 2) the pause, and 3) polar ice stability the alarmist position of CO2 as the climate knob is untenable. Build the Wall.
I’m embarrassed, but I live in Massachusetts. The only nuclear power plant in the state was hut down killing 84% of the state’s green energy. The state government is pushing for a solar Massachusetts and placing more and more wind tunnels across the state while supporting groups that fight pipelines for natural gas and even hydroelectric power from Canada. Trump is a breath of fresh air against this insidious onslaught of ignorance that claims to create millions of jobs producing the world’s most expensive, unaffordable and unreliable power when following this course would do the job that Hitler and Stalin couldn’t.
shut down, wind turbines, sorry I should proof read before I post my rant.
Joe, you have every reason to be embarrassed but you’re only in 2nd place…I live in California. But I’ll give you this, your Senator Markey is #1 worst in America
We feel your pain! At a distance, yet we feel it all the same.
Green new deal: “…Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) prepared to introduce a framework outlining the goals of a sweeping climate pact going forward….”
Joe, don’t like what’s been happening with energy? How about Markley’s new partner and plan?
Green new deal: “…Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) prepared to introduce a framework outlining the goals of a sweeping climate pact going forward….”
Joe, don’t like what’s been happening with energy? How about Markley’s new partner and plan?
Joe, you have every reason to be embarrassed but you’re only in 2nd place…I live in California.
not to add to your embarrassment Dennis, but his name is Jon not joe 😉
Ouch sorry Jon. Double entry from receiving “posting awaiting moderation”
What”s that about?
If thousands of miles of scorching desert and a high probability of a brutal death haven’t stopped the migrants, I doubt a wall will do much…
Since walls work wherever we build them yes, walls will work. Trick is to not let unions and subgrade contractors rob us blind in the process.
Trump Budget Guts Renewable Energy Spending To Pay For Border Wall –>
Trump Budget Cuts Renewable Energy Spending To Pay For Border Wall