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House GOP approves cutting EPA budget by nearly 40 percent

IHouse Republicans approved legislation Friday that would slash nearly 40 percent of the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The funding bill, passed by a 213-203 vote, cuts 39 percent of the EPA’s budget and would be the smallest budget the agency has had in three decades. Republican Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.) and Marc Molinaro (N.Y.) voted against the bill, while Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) was recorded as voting for it.

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Uncontrolled capitalism is going to kill us all. But at least the share holders will be pleased along the way.
- I think about that same sentiment from this comic too often.
- With capitalism as the primary mover.
  It's cheaper for manufacturing if they don't want to worry about toxic waste products. The desire for more profit is behind this.
  
  Why do you think they want the government out of the way?
  Capitalism is the cheat code to power. Who needs a government when you have unlimited money?
  
  It's both.
What happened to the conservatives that liked to preserve the environment for hunting, fishing, camping, etc?
- I'm not sure we have Conservatives anymore, those that want to conserve things. I think perhaps they should be called Regressives, they that want to regress.
  
  This is now what they will be called by me and anyone I can convince
- Probably dead during covid or because that generation of people are dying off. Some religious folks might hold the rosy view that covid was the rapture.
  
  Damn I really want to see an Evangelical version of Midnight Mass where Covid is the Rapture now.
Fucking GOP is going to kill us all much more quickly. It sounds insane written out but it's absolutely true
- Why? If people want efficient cars they would buy them at high numbers. That would give an incentive for car makers to continue making more efficient cars.
  Right now you have a bunch of crap iut there that people don't want like electric cars
  
  Another quote from the Journal of Rectally Sourced Statistics.
  
  incentive for car makers to continue making more efficient cars.
  That's never been true. Profits on big inefficient cars have always been higher than smaller efficient so that's what's been advertised and pushed during sales. Some brands went fully SUV and are unable to sell anything smaller when fuel prices go up and customers look for something less gas guzzling.
  
  Trucks are heavily advertised over cars because selling a truck produces more profit.
  Over time, those advertisements convince Americans that they need a F-150 4x4 EXTREME DUTY ULTRA RUGGED truck.
  
  You know why. But congrats that you got that little ping of dopamine that you get when you "slightly annoy" or fuck with a couple dozen strangers on the internet. That sweet little hit.
  But I also bet you get that second, likely smaller ping as well. That one doesn't feel quite as nice, but you're learning to push it to the back, not let it effect you. But it effects you. Every time it takes something away from you and you can feel it. Or at least you used to... until you let it die. And you can't help but feel something else (your empathy perhaps) is gone with it. Forever.
  
  What you should have said was nothing.
Hey everyone, thanks for attending our meeting on how to be more evil. We've got plenty of ideas to work on, but i think we should start with how we can better destroy the environment and earn some money while we do it.
It's interesting how these "critical cuts" we need to make to the budget always come out of the enforcement agencies keeping track of the companies bribing them with campaign money.
- We need to vote them all out next year and then again in the next midterm
- It's important because it shows exactly what they stand for in legal writing. Yeah it won't pass but it's still good to note.
  
  And the Dems better make sure the voters know about it instead of just focusing exclusively on the abortion issue over and over.
  
  And if it managed to pass in the Senate, then it would likely be VOA (Vetoed On Arrival) on President Joe Biden's desk.
- There is an election coming up soon.
  Democrats would rather pass a bad budget than go into shutdown.
Democracy has been dead for the GOP. This is just authoritarianism in action under the guise of democracy. Fucking crooks.
- What guise? I'm pretty sure the masks/hoods are off and it's full on bigot spigot.
Smallest budget in 3 decades by dollar value, or inflation adjusted?
Something tells me if you account for inflation, it's gonna be more than 3 decades.
Something something drown it in a bathtub.
The free market is going to kill us all.
- They only have control of the house because too many people didn't vote. Voter turnout was only 46% in 2022.
Richard Nixon is rolling in his grave.
- Ironic isn't it?
- Arooooo
I approve of cutting 40% of each gop house member off and using the waste fat (there will be a lot) to heat my house through the winter.
This is a way to pass the buck to Biden for the government shutdown. He’s likely to veto that, if it even gets there.
- It'll never pass the Senate
The House is going to shut down the government and default on the debt.
The most terrifying words ever said are "I'm Republican and I'm here to help."
- That's what we used to think but it's already here and thanks to those corrupt swine, it's only going to get worse faster as their owner donors ESCALATE rather than cut back, pretending that hypothetical carbon offsets erase real and immediate harm.
- We gotta vote them out
It’s all fucked to shit. These fascists need to stop breathing
- Gotta vote them out
Also fuck this guy:
while Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) was recorded as voting for it.
If anything, that there's still someone other than Manchin calling themselves a Democrat while being deep enough in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry to vote for this bullshit is the newsworthy story here, not the GOP passing another turd that has no chance of clearing the Senate.
- He's from Texas. Oil and gas owns both sides of the aisle in Texas.
  Fuck legalized bribery. Vincentr Gonzalez in particular is just a dingleberry caught in the ass hair of our political system.
- It sucks, but it also may be by design. We need democratic representatives in red states to keep their seats. If they have to vote for GOP policies here and there to keep their seats and are open about that with house democratic leadership then that is something Hakeem Jeffries can plan for. This likely would have passed without democratic votes, so if it helps a few in precarious districts, I'm not as mad.
Of course they would.
- Vote 40% Republicans out of office.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Cutting funding is never easy or pretty, but with the national debt in excess of $33 trillion and inflation at an unacceptable level, we had to make tough choices to rein in federal spending,” Simpson said on the floor Thursday.
It additionally seeks to defund the EPA’s efforts to curtail toxic pollution and planet-warming emissions, preventing the agency from using funding to enforce its rules on power plants.
Rep. Chellie Pingree (Maine), the top Democrat on the Interior-Environment funding subcommittee, said the bill “debilitates America’s ability to address the climate crisis and hobbles the agencies within its jurisdiction.”
The bill looks drastically different from its counterpart in the Senate, which calls for $7 billion more in total funding than the legislation passed in the House and was approved with overwhelming bipartisan support in committee earlier this year.
The gap comes as no surprise, as House Republicans announced earlier this year they would be marking up their fiscal 2024 government funding plans below the budget caps deal struck between President Biden and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) over the summer.
But Simpson and other top appropriators told The Hill in recent days that they have been backing away from earlier plans to further big-dollar cuts to the funding legislation, as conservatives have signaled they’ll give Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)
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There are certainly places to make cuts in the federal government. Why not start with the CIA, NSA, DHS, and Pentagon?
- One of these things is not like the others...
  
  Which one? From where I'm standing they all make the world a worse place.

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