Apr 12, 2021 06:00 AM EDT
President Donald Trump has spent the last four years trying to slash the budgets of federal departments that deal with climate change and the atmosphere.
Former President Barack Obama advocated canceling renewable energy research, reducing government funding for flood prevention, and consolidating key federal agencies. In 2019, he also went so far as to request that Congress cut support for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by 31%, bringing it down to lows not seen since 1993.
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President Joe Biden is now poised to take the exact opposite tack. The White House unveiled its skinny budget - a kind of fiscal outline for where the president plans to invest money in the coming year - just two weeks after Biden proposed his climate-friendly infrastructure proposal. (Consider it a budgetary allowance for government agencies.) And the $1.5 trillion plan is a far cry from the previous four years proposals.