Patrick Leahy actually said...

The administration claims that the fiscal year 2018 proposed budget cuts and eliminations will help your Department streamline its activitie...

As some have said, the intent of the administration to actually dismantle the EPA as a Federal agency over the next 4 years.

The EPA budget, as I said before, is really the worst I've seen. I don't think it invests in our future.

Clean air and water, and the monitoring and the science that help achieve that, are the real priorities of the American people.