EPA Crafting Plan To Meet Trump's Goal Of 5 Percent Budget Cut In FY20

October 18, 2018
Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler says the agency is working on a plan to meet President Donald Trump's just-announced goal of a 5 percent budget cut in fiscal year 2020 for all executive agencies in response to rising budget deficits, but gave no timetable for when officials might produce their recommended reductions. "We are working on that -- we had a senior staff meeting this morning to discuss it. We don't have anything to announce right now,” Wheeler said in...


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