President Trump's so -
called skinny budget calls for large budget cuts at the EPA, including a 31 percent reduction agencywide that will slash staff by 25 percent and eliminate 56 programs.
Mick Mulvaney, new director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told reporters yesterday that the so -
called skinny budget fleshes out what the president promised during the campaign and since taking office.
The spending plan, for the fiscal year that begins 1 October, fleshes out the so -
called skinny budget that the White House released this past March.
Not exact matches
The Trump administration's «
skinny» education
budget includes what Mulgrew
called «a billion - dollar voucher program» and cuts to after - school and summer programs [see page 3].
The so -
called «
skinny budget» also proposes eliminating international climate change programs, climate change research and partnership programs, as well as research funding and monies to clean up Superfund sites.
The Trump plan, also known as the
skinny budget,
calls for $ 54 billion in cuts to non-defense programs with a simultaneous $ 54 billion increase in defense spending.
This week, President Trump released his «
skinny budget» proposal,
calling for wide - ranging cuts in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), including the complete elimination of funding for Title II, Part A, the Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants program.