House Republicans Pass 2024 Interior, Environment Funding Bill that Endangers Americans' Health While Profiting Polluters

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"I have proudly worked across the aisle to protect our environment for Americans past, present, and future, and I am immensely disappointed to see the majority abandon their commitment to conserving America's fragile lands and natural resources. The ramifications of cuts in this bill would reach every corner of the Interior Department. It damages our public lands, promotes dirty energy, jeopardizes biodiversity, and obstructs the U.S. response to the climate crisis. On top of these dangerous cuts, Republicans are slashing funding for the arts -- including the National Endowment for the Arts' flagship Grants for the Arts Projects program, which benefits individual and community well-being and supports the economy in all 435 of our Congressional districts -- and they are prohibiting the Smithsonian from highlighting the contributions of Latinos in U.S. history and culture by not making it possible to move forward with the National Museum of the American Latino, making Hispanics invisible. These cuts are shameful and do not represent American values."

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