House GOP Bill To Cut EPA Funding By 20 Percent

(Washington, DC) — House Republicans have passed a bill that would slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 20 percent. The annual government funding bill for the EPA and the Interior Department passed late Wednesday by a slim majority. Democrats were strongly opposed to the bill, which also proposes cuts to the National Park Service and the Smithsonian. The bill is seen as unlikely to pass in its current form in the Democrat-controlled Senate.