I voted NO because I will not let Republicans use a partisan government funding bill to make cuts to Community Health Centers, medical research, and health care professional training as they gear up to gut at least $880 billion to Medicaid. We should be working together to lower costs and expand access to health care, like the bipartisan agreement we had in December, but Republicans walked away from that deal because Elon Musk opposed it.
Trump EPA Puts Polluters Over People
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is supposed to do just that: protect the environment and public health, but under Trump the only thing the agency is protecting is polluter profits. It's clear the agency has been taken over by MAGA cronies who are willing to make Americans sick and destroy our environment so that Trump's polluter friends can get richer. Just this week, the Trump EPA announced the rollback of dozens of rules and regulations designed to protect Americans’ health and the environment, including emissions standards for vehicles, pollution from power plants and the finding that provides the scientific basis for addressing climate change. All to the benefit of Big Oil and Trump’s billionaire buddies.
I also launched an investigation this week with my Democratic Colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee into EPA’s illegal efforts to prevent funding from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to reach its recipients. The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) – established by Congress in the Inflation Reduction Act – is a $27 billion funding program designed to inject billions into our local communities and economies with the goal of lowering Americans’ energy bills, boosting homegrown clean energy, and reducing dangerous pollution. We are demanding that they follow the law and reverse course immediately.
