Republicans are pushing to reduce funding by 64% to two clean water programs that people in every state rely on to keep water and sewer systems safe and reliable.
For fiscal year 2023, the CWSRF got $1,638,861,000 and the DWSRF got $1,126,101,000, including congressionally directed spending projects; for next year, House Republicans want to allocate $535,000,000 and $460,611,000, respectively — a nearly $1.8 billion cut collectively.
“This far-right radicalism seeks to undermine the essential programs of a functioning government,” Grant charged. “We cannot allow our country to return to an era when rivers were on fire and communities across the country faced unmitigated toxic water threats.
The U.S. Senate, which is narrowly controlled by Democrats, “must reject this outrageous proposal out of hand,” she said. “Safe water should not be a political bargaining chip, nor used to score cheap political points. Safe water is nonnegotiable.”“to safeguard federal water funding from these foolishly political annual appropriations battles.”
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