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Congress Should Reject the Dirty Budget and Infrastructure Scam

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 15, 2018
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Budget and Spending Environment

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Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, as Americans, we have a responsibility to protect our environment and our public lands for today and for tomorrow, and that is why we, Congress, passed clean air and clean water laws. That is why we protected our public lands and treasured spaces.

President Trump has a different set of priorities. With his dirty budget and his infrastructure scam, President Trump is attacking basic environmental safeguards. The Trump budget cuts environmental protections and makes it impossible for the EPA to keep American families safe and healthy.

The Trump budget stops essential research on climate change, slashes clean energy development, and threatens endangered species. The Trump infrastructure scam repeals basic environmental safeguards and sells off our public lands to Big Oil. Once again, President Trump is putting polluters and their profits first at the expense of America's families being healthy.

Our air, water, and our land should never be partisan issues. Congress must reject this dirty budget and infrastructure scam and work to protect our environment and not destroy it.

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