- EPA’s budget accounts for less than one-half of a penny of every dollar of federal spending.
- Despite having to deal with an ever-increasing array of environmental threats, EPA’s has fewer staff today than it had under President George W Bush.
- The indiscriminate budget cuts pursued by DOGE will cost taxpayers more than they save by gutting essential services that will have to be replaced.
- Every year, about 40 percent of the agency’s funding goes to states, local governments, tribal nations and other public service entities across the nation.
- in 2024, 57% of EPA’s drinking water and other clean water grants went to states won by Donald Trump.
