President Trump new budget proposal is set to significantly cut funding to an entire network of ‘climate science’ centers, a move which is sure to enrage the left.
As The Hill reports:
Trump’s fiscal 2021 budget would slash funding for the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers, eliminating all $38 million for research to help wildlife and humans “adapt to a changing climate.”
Rather than fund all eight regional centers along with the national one, the budget instead calls for just one center, at a cost of $20 million.
The restructuring plans follow similar steps employed by the Trump administration, where agencies with research ties are reshuffled or relocated, often prompting a reduction in staff…
The administration is also in the midst of relocating Bureau of Land Management (BLM) staff, shifting more than 150 Washington-based employees to locations across the West, leaving just 61 employees in the nation’s capital. The move is expected to break apart the team that reviews the environmental impacts of major projects.
Liberal critics are already protesting the move, claiming that the move may endanger ‘critical’ research on global ‘climate change.’ A charge which seems rather unlikely to change the administration’s mind on the matter.