President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2020 budget request would slash $2 billion, or 25 percent, from EPA's current $8.1 billion appropriation, leaving the agency with $6.1 billion, terminating a host of voluntary and "lower-priority" programs and cutting funding for states even as the agency aims to give them more responsibility under its "cooperative federalism" agenda. The budget request, released March 11, is unlikely to gain any traction in the Democratic-led House, and some Republicans are likely to push back on specific proposals - such as the plan to cut $ 1.4 billion from state grants, which would bring the program down from the current $4.2 billion to $2.7 billion.
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