WASHINGTON (WOOD) — Great Lakes funding that lawmakers fought to protect last year is once again on the budget chopping block under President Donald Trump’s newly unveiled plan.
The president wants to slash the $300 million budget for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to about $30 million.
The proposed cut brought swift objections from Michigan lawmakers.
Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, who authored the bill to fund the GLRI in 2010, was one of the first elected officials to respond to the proposed cut:
“If there’s one thing we’ve learned, we can’t take it for granted that others understand how important our water is. This is outrageous. People across Michigan spoke out and took action last year to stop these cuts and I know they’ll do so again,” she said in a statement Monday.
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