President Trump intends to roll out his budget blueprint Thursday — and it will include a 31 percent reduction to the Environmental Protection Agency and a 28 percent cut to the State Department.
The EPA budget will slip from $8.2 billion to $5.6 billion — lower than it’s been in four decades, the New York Times reported.
“Senior Trump officials consider the EPA the leading edge of the administration’s plans to deconstruct the administrative state,” one source told the Axios website on Tuesday.
Officials told The Post the State Department faces a 28 percent reduction.
Trump’s first budget will also feature substantial increases in spending for the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, law enforcement and school choice.
The Defense Department will see an increase of about 10 percent and the Department of Homeland Security’s budget will go up by about 6 percent.
The cuts will hit the 60-year-old State Department Food for Peace Program, which sends food to poor countries hit by war or natural disasters, and will eliminate the Department of Transportation’s Essential Air Service program, which subsidizes flights to rural airports, the Times reported.
Other cuts would affect Amtrak, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the $3 billion Community Development Block Grant program, which funds popular programs like Meals on Wheels.
Trump’s budget proposal is scheduled for release Thursday morning.