President Donald Trump inspired tremulous terror in the hearts of the lunatic left this week when he reportedly issued a budget plan that includes significant cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Submitted from the Office of Management and Budget, the plan calls “for eliminating dozens of programs, including at least 16 that have to do with global warming and implementing former President Barack Obama’s climate agenda,” according to The Daily Caller.
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The plan also demands a 30 percent cut in grants to states and a 20 percent reduction in the EPA’s workforce. In total, close to $2 billion — or 25 percent of the EPA’s budget — would be slashed.
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The response to this plan has been amusing, to say the least.
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“The scale and scope of Trump’s war on EPA is alarming, and he and [EPA Secretary Scott] Pruitt have plenty of tools to do serious harm if left unchecked,” ominously warned the frightened leftists at The Huffington Post.
“A proposal by the Trump administration to slash the Environmental Protection Agency budget by one-fourth would have a dramatic impact on Minnesota’s ability to protect its citizens from dirty air, polluted water and exposure to toxins,” the Minnesota Star Tribune bellowed in fear.
Give me a break …
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This is not to say that Trump’s proposal is perfect. It’s not.
“I am concerned about the grants that have been targeted, particularly around water infrastructure, and those very important state revolving funds,” EPA Secretary Pruitt told E&E News earlier this week.
Clearly, the budget needs to be tweaked here and there, which is both fine and normal.
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“In this budget discussion that is ongoing with Congress that is just starting, there are some concerns about some of these grant programs that EPA has been a part of historically,” Pruitt added.
Exactly. This is the normal ebb-and-flow of bureaucracy at work, not the sinister machinations of an evil duo hellbent on making air and water dirty, as the liberal media would have us believe.
In other words, when tomorrow arrives, all of us will still be able to drink water, breath air, and live. And the same applies for next week, next month, and even next year.
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So please, my dear liberal snowflakes, calm down, for the world ain’t ending, sunshine!