Bipartisan Pushback Against Some Environmental Cuts

For the third time since taking office, President Donald Trump wants to make deep cuts to clean energy and environmental programs, but some of those programs have broad bipartisan constituencies.

“They [White House officials] make some proposals in there that they know we’re not going to go along with,” said Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson, the top Republican on the House Appropriations energy and water spending panel. That’s especially true now that Democrats control the House, he said.

“Elections have consequences, and the bills we write are going to be more in the Democratic mold,” he said.

Simpson’s comments ...