Cooperative Action Network
The 2025 federal budget risks funding for life outside.
Every year, Congress creates and passes a federal budget through many layers of negotiation and decision-making. Within both the Senate and the House, budgets sections are shaped by subcommittees in charge of oversight of federal agencies. Unless we act together, funding for life outside could be at risk in 2025.
Passed by a five-vote margin, the House’s Interior-Environment Fiscal Year 2025 budget would slash 22.6% of funding for America’s public lands, habitat conservation, clean air and soil and more. Key cuts would:
- End projects that help communities adapt to extreme weather and that reduce our national carbon emissions;
- Heighten vulnerability to toxic pollution for rural and low-income communities, who face nature deprivation;
- Reduce budgets for the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest SErvice and other agencies that maintain our favorite wild spaces.
We still have time to act. We can urge the Senate to reject harmful spending cuts to our outdoors as it reaches their vote.