Cows graze in a field near the coal-fueled Oak Grove Power Plant in Robertson County, Texas, on April 29, 2024. Brandon Bell/Getty Images
The Trump administration is again seeking to halve the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) annual budget with a proposed $4.2 billion fiscal year 2027 (FY27) spending plan that slashes $4.6 billion–or 52.4 percent–from this year’s $8.8 billion appropriation.
The request is the same $4.2 billion the administration proposed in its FY26 EPA budget that sought to gut $5.3 billion–55 percent–from the previous year’s $9.5 billion allocation and called for whittling the agency’s 15,000 employees to 10,000, rescinding billions in approved agency-administered grants. and rolling back a broad slate of environmental regulations.