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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    What happened to the conservatives that liked to preserve the environment for hunting, fishing, camping, etc?

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      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.

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      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.

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        I know of at least 6 dead and one on permanent Oxygen in Idaho. Covid denialism did no-one any favors.

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        Damn I really want to see an Evangelical version of Midnight Mass where Covid is the Rapture now.