EPA budget cuts are soon to come and could be up to as much as twenty-five percent. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), is an agency of the Federal government created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment. They enforce regulations based on laws passed by Congress; and cutting funding to this by almost 54 billion dollars would be devastating to the program. The money that is being taken away from the EPA would be going to other defense programs.
The Environmental Protection Agency is a Federally run program. In our last unit we talked about Federal and State governments, this is a perfect example of a power that the Federal government has and that State doesn’t. Being able to make cuts like this is a power limited to the Federal government.
My thoughts on these huge cuts: I think that these cuts on the EPA are needed at this time because of the need for money in other areas such as defense. We need to focus our money on the biggest problems at hand and to do that we have to take away from programs that aren't being as useful. Of course living in a coastal community, I want to protect our waters and have clean air. But as the government continues to work with limited resources and funds, defending our country is a priority over environmental issues.
