Smirk wants to cut Eniviroment, clean water programs by 6%!

[Bluebear]

Yet approval ratings "soar" as he spends $300B and 1500 soldier's lives to establish an Islamic theocracy in Iraq.



http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=abnzZeiV.OAU

Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President George W. Bush asked Congress to cut the Environmental Protection Agency's budget for fiscal 2006 by 5.6 percent to $7.57 billion by paring water- related programs.

This is the second year in a row the Bush administration has sought to cut the EPA budget. Last year, it requested $7.76 billion, or a cut of 7 percent from fiscal 2004. Congress restored the fiscal 2005 budget to $8.02 billion.

``Unfortunately, it's kind of like Groundhog Day. It's more of the same of what we've seen in the past,'' said Wesley Warren, deputy director for advocacy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a Washington-based environmental group.

Bush cut $361 million from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, a 33 percent decrease from fiscal 2005. The fund provides communities with low-interest loans to fix and update local water infrastructure. The federal government pays into the fund annually, and states match the contribution with the expectation that the fund, which now has $52 billion, will be self-sufficient, paying out $3.4 billion to states annually.