In Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series, we are examining the White House proposed budget cuts to learn what's hidden beneath the surface and later update based on Congressional budget proposals and actions. This is our first to focus on proposals related to 2019. Since Congress never got their act together for 2018, most of Trump's proposals didn't go into effect fortunately. For 2019, who knows?
In April 2017, Trump signed an Executive Order aimed at ending the ban on offshore drilling in certain areas. Smart Dissent painfully covered that here. In late June, Trump spoke again on the topic, claiming that progress is being made to make his "vision" a reality and sell our environment to the highest bidder.
In Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series, we are detailing as many of the White House proposed budget cuts as we can keep up with. We seek to learn and share what's hidden beneath the surface which are so many programs, facilities, and people that will never be reported by most media.
In this series, which will unfortunately have dozens of posts, we will examine the White House proposed budget cuts to learn what's hidden beneath the surface and later update based on Congressional budget proposals and actions.
Have you ever heard of the Chemical Safety Board (CSB)? Chances are you haven't unless you work in certain industries. How important can it be then? Extremely, as it turns out. It's among many similar government agencies proposed to be eliminated or have funding reduced to end their effectiveness. So why does the CSB matter?
The Army Corps of Engineers approved an easement necessary for completion of the Keystone Pipeline. This approval came nearly 2 weeks before the end of it's own established public comments period and without regard for it's own policy of waiting 14 days after Congressional notification before granting an easement.