House Majority Votes to Accelerate Ecosystem Collapse

Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Budget Undermine Decades of Environmental Protections

Washington, DC–Yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives passed dozens of Project 2025-esque policy riders in their Fiscal Year 2025 bill to fund the U.S. government. The Republican majority unabashedly turned the regular budgetary process into a venue for culture wars and dismantling of bedrock environmental policies that keep every American safe by preserving their drinking water, air quality, irreplaceable cultural resources, and access to nature.

With climate change and ecosystem collapse accelerating at unprecedented rates in urban and rural communities alike, Congress must work in good faith to protect their constituents from the damaging effects of climate catastrophe.

This bill will set United States environmental stewardship back decades in a historic moment where we have zero time to waste. In 2024 alone, the United States has already experienced 15 extreme weather events totaling over $1 billion in damages each and many states have experienced record-breaking heat with cascading adverse impacts on public health.

Whereas the House bill cuts funding for critical programs and agencies stewarding environmental health and cultural preservation, today the Senate has passed the chamber's companion bill which would appropriate necessary increases for environmental stewardship, tribal programs, and cultural programs.

GreenLatinos urges Congress to move forward with sensible and responsible budgetary negotiations that will correct the trajectory of this nation on course to environmental devastation and prevent a government shutdown.

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