House Republican appropriators unveiled their fiscal 2026 funding legislation for the Interior Department and EPA, with steep cuts proposed for both agencies. The bill would approve about $38 billion for agencies under its purview, nearly $3 billion below the fiscal 2025 amount. Interior would get about $14.8 billion and EPA would be funded at $7 billion, a 23 percent cut for the environment agency. The legislation is, however, more generous than the president’s budget request. … EPA would receive roughly $7 billion from the legislation in fiscal 2026, about a $2.1 billion or 23 percent decrease from its enacted funding this year. … That sum includes $2.1 billion for the agency’s Clean Water and Drinking Water state revolving funds, which Trump proposed to eliminate almost in their entirety in his plan. That is still $662 million below current levels, Democratic lawmakers noted in their bill summary.

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