Tag: budget

The appropriations bill that includes programs in the Department of the Interior, U.S. Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency was advanced last week by the House Interior and Environment...

Top-level funding for programs in the U.S. Department of the Interior and related agencies would see an increase in Fiscal Year 2020 under spending caps approved last week by the...

The Wildlife Society submitted written testimony to the House Interior Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies, asking Congress to increase Fiscal Year...

The president’s recently released Fiscal Year 2020 budget proposal would decrease funding for many important wildlife management and conservation programs. Overall spending levels for both the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish...

The Trump administration recently requested an increase in funding for national wildlife refuges for the Fiscal Year 2020 federal budget. This comes just weeks after the Fiscal Year 2019 appropriations...

Averting another government shutdown, Congress passed a $333 billion appropriations and border security package containing language to fund federal agencies through the end of the fiscal year. The bill provides funding...

At a cabinet meeting Oct. 17, President Donald Trump asked all cabinet secretaries to reduce their agencies’ proposed budgets by 5 percent for fiscal year 2020. The call for cuts...

The Wildlife Society and the Society of American Foresters, along with other professional societies and conservation, forestry, and sportsmen and women’s organizations sent letters to Congress urging lawmakers to ensure...

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke testified last week on the department’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2019 in front of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies. The...

Testifying before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Interim Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen described next year’s presidential budget request as “a request of very tough choices and trade-offs.”...