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"Interior: Budget Highlights New Headquarters, New Drilling"

"The White House fiscal 2020 budget for the Interior Department would prioritize funds for a departmentwide reorganization as well as for land and wildfire management.

The proposal recommends $12.5 billion for the department, which is about $800 million more than the administration's fiscal 2019 request of $11.7 billion.

But Congress gave Interior $13 billion for fiscal 2019 under the spending and border security package that President Trump signed into law last month, ending the 35-day government shutdown.

'President Trump's 2020 budget request is an effort to restore fiscal sanity in Washington,' acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said in a statement. 'In doing so, the Department of the Interior's Fiscal Year 2020 budget request strikes a reasonable balance and includes several important legislative proposals to address longstanding problems like the National Park Service's maintenance backlog.'"

Kellie Lunney reports for Greenwire March 11, 2019.

SEE ALSO:

"Trump Administration Still Wants To Gut Popular Land Conservation Program" (HuffPost)

"Interior Budget Request Highlights Border Push" (The Hill)

Source: Greenwire, 03/12/2019