[inaudible conversations] good morning this hearing will come to order. it s the day to do the environment subcommittee with fiscal year 2021 budget request for the environmental protection agency. and acting chief financial officer welcome to both of you. the president s request 2021 to $66 billion to the epa and 27 percent cut hello fy 2020. this seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve in a broad bipartisan basis fy 2024 example to request to eliminate 30 mine million dollars of new funding we provided to the epa and requests with clean energy funding grants by 47 percent and 9 million-dollar cuts fy 2020 also $870 million from the 3 billion we invested to rebuild our crumbling water infrastructure. i held a listening section in st. paul they would lose 56 percent of federal funding and approximately 75 percent of the cats were to go through the minnesota pollution control that air pollution monitoring for the communities back home and clean water action sa
[inaudible conversations] good morning. today is the day we will examine the president s fiscal year for the epa joining with morning is administrator wheeler and acting chief financial officer. welcome to both of you. fiscal year 2021 the presidents $66 billion to the epa but this request the presidency of what you were able to achieve on the fy 2020. and then to eliminate the new funding we provided to address pfas and the clean energy funding grants c by 47 percent at $409 million fy 2020 also has money from the 3 billion we invested with our nation s crumbling water infrastructure. recently held a listening session and they would lose and what at what happened of these cuts were to go through the pollution control also proposed cuts to the clean water grant act air pollution and monitoring to have our communities back home included it would be an absolute catastrophe for clean water. and i directly heard about concerns with the budget with the pfas pollution it could be t
good morning this hearing will come to order. today is the day that we are going to do the interior environment subcommittee and examine the presidents fiscaleat year 2021 budget request for the admire environmental protection agency. officer welc administrator andrew wheeler, with him is david bloom. welcome to both of you. the fiscal year 2021, the presidents request of 6.66 billion dollars for the epa isy a 27% cut below f why 2020 and active level of 9.06 billion dollars. this request from the president seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve on a broad we bipartisan basis in te fy 2020. for example, request eliminates the pro $39 million in new fundg we provided to the epa to address requests regarding climate and energy funding grants by 47%, that is a 409 million dollar cut below fy 2020. the request also slashes 100 $17 million from the 3 billion we invested in fy 2020 to rebuild our nations crumbling water infrastructure. i recently held a listening se
wheeler testify before house appropriations subcommittee on the agencies 21 2021 budget request. several asked the epa s effort to police and regulate what our call forever chemicals. a subcommittee chair opened the hearing. wi good morning this hearing will come to order. today is the day that we are going to do the interior environment subcommittee and examine the presidents fiscaleat year 2021 budget request for the admire environmental protection agency. officer welc administrator andrew wheeler, with him is david bloom. welcome to both of you. the fiscal year 2021, the presidents request of 6.66 billion dollars for the epa isy a 27% cut below f why 2020 and active level of 9.06 billion dollars. this request from the president seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve on a broad we bipartisan basis in te fy 2020. for example, request eliminates the pro $39 million in new fundg we provided to the epa to address requests regarding climate and energy funding gra
we will have with us later today two representatives. we understand in this building that can be a challenge. fingers crossed we will have both congressional representatives with us. we also have several former commissioners with us. thank you very much. two fellow commissioners on the eeoc, thank you for coming. i understand that susan eisenhower, the granddaughter of president eisenhower, who in 1957 signed the commission into existence thank you for that. for joining us. john gore, acting assistant attorney general for civil rights at the united states department of justice, and cameron quinn, the officer for civil rights and civil liberties at dhs and also a former virginia state advisory committee member for civil rights in virginia. we have several people who have traveled from california, illinois, and missouri to be with us. thank you for coming from afar and thank you to everyone in our staff who has been with us today. you make sure we do the work we need to do. t