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The cuts are gonna kill a ton of jobs. Blue collar ones too. And some of the US competitive advantage.

Science has been driving our economy for years.

They are also proposing cutting funding for clean water in the Great Lakes region 97%. Largest source of fresh water in the world and we are gonna cut almost all of the funding?

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They've also announced eliminating the budget to control Asian carp... billions and billions in economic activity are going to be lost, not to mention so much biological diversity in the Great Lakes. Just an absolute catastrophe.

Is that also a budget action?

This describes it as an administrative action to preserve certain business activities in Illinois:

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/03/trump_admin...

To be clear, I prefer the plan that protects the lakes.

Yep, the overall program cut by 95%+ in the Trump budget.

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/03/trump_great_lake...

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