for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman.
The cuts to climate programs are part of a largerby 2034 proposed in the draft legislation that also covers communication and health-related policy, largely targeting Medicaid.
The cuts fit with Trump’s, which looks to slash federal spending through a sweeping reorganization of federal agencies as well as steep cuts to disease research and, especially,and policies intended to address climate change. Congress ultimately decides the spending and tax plans.
In Trump’s first few months back in the White House, the administration has broadly gone after, many of which were put into place under the Biden administration, pledging to dismantle what Trump calls the Democrats’ “green new scam.”
The GOP proposal “guts investments that are cutting energy costs” for families, “powering a domestic manufacturing boom and delivering essential health care to the communities that need it most,’' said Lena Moffitt, executive director of the environmental group Evergreen Action.
The Republican move to loosen pollution standards “would mean more smog in our streets,” while cuts to environmental justice block grants “would force low-income communities to pay more for dirtier energy,” she added. “Republicans are sacrificing clean energy on the altar of Big Oil to bankroll another round of tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy.”“And what I think we’re trying to do here is restore them,” he said. “Piece by piece, that’s what we do here every day.”
But your legislation is being criticized, hammered for doing so many things. People willThe Congressional Budget office estimates that under proposals in the bill, some 8.6 million people will no longer have health care, and 3 million a month will stop receiving the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, known as SNAP.
“They’re counting the people the work requirements are going to apply to,” he said. “They would be, would be choosing, you know, not to work.”But some of the people — particularly older, single men — may not be able to find work or go back to work.