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WASHINGTON ― The latest version of the Trump administration’s 2018 budget will still cut the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency by nearly a third.

The Washington Post reported on an advance version of the budget on Monday night that would cut funding to the agency to $5.65 billion ― a 31 percent reduction. 

As far as the EPA goes, the proposal doesn’t appear to have changed drastically from the so-called “skinny budget” released in March. 

Science and health advocates decried the cuts. The proposal “takes a wrecking ball to agencies that protect our health, safety and environment,” said Ken Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists and former Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner, in a statement. The lower budget would mean “taking our environmental cops off the beat and allowing those who would seek to pollute to get away with it.”

This is a developing story and will be updated when there is more information on the budget proposal. 

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