Restore Great Lakes funding | Our View

Green Bay Press-Gazette Editorial Board

It’s a subject that has garnered bipartisan support, at least in the Great Lakes states.

However, that support doesn’t extend to the White House, which has left officials and lawmakers in eight states lobbying members of Congress to change President Donald Trump’s budget and restore funding to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

Trump’s 62-page budget proposal — “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again” — eliminates funding for the federal GLRI as part of the steep cuts for the Environmental Protection Agency....