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EPA, Park Service take big hits in latest Trump budget plan
- The Trump administration released a detailed budget proposal on a Friday in 2025 that cuts funding and staff at multiple federal environmental agencies including the EPA and National Park Service.
- The proposal follows an earlier 'skinny budget' and seeks to reduce EPA payroll by about 35 percent and cut the National Park Service staff by roughly 30 percent amid broader plans to reduce federal environmental programs.
- Key impacts include a zeroing out of NOAA’s research office, a 32 percent cut to FEMA’s federal assistance, and drops to National Park Service staffing from over 13,600 to about 8,100 workers, threatening park operations and services.
- Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, indicated that the administration might use impoundment to advance its policy goals, while Representative Zoe Lofgren dismissed the budget proposal as unworkable, and Defenders of Wildlife condemned it as an “extinction budget.”
- If enacted, these deep cuts could severely undermine federal environmental and wildlife conservation efforts, but Congress is unlikely to adopt the full request amid widespread opposition and uncertainty over political outcomes.
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Defenders of WildlifeTrump Budget Request Would Cut National Park Service Workforce By More Than 5,500
The National Park Service would lose more than 5,500 employees under President Donald Trump’s Fiscal 2026 budget proposal, one that would have far-reaching impacts to the agency's mandate and which Defenders of Wildlife called an “extinction budget.”The proposal says the Park Service workforce would drop from 13,648 during FY2024 to 8,130 for the coming fiscal year if Congress adopts Trump's request, which is unlikely to happen in full.The propo…
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