Democratic allocations press Zilden to freeze an “illegal” EPA “

Four Democrats in Congress wrote in high -ranking positions in the credits councils to the Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Le Zeldin on Thursday, describing the Trump administration’s freezing on the volatile EPA financing “illegal criticism of the duty.”

The letter was signed by the Great Committee for Democratic Senate Patty Murray (Washington) and its counterpart in the House Interior for paintings.

The four members specifically refer to the CEO of Trump in his first week in his post, freezing the money from the law of inflation or the infrastructure law from the two parties. Soon after, the White House issued instructions showing that the freezing freezing on grants related to climate change and electric car charging networks.

The four members wrote: “All the funding and disbursement of the Environmental Protection Agency must be provided in accordance with the law without exceptions.”

The letter cited the 1974 reservation law, which is the federal law that restricts the ability of the executive to provide any money already allocated by Congress. Russell Fion, Trump’s candidate for the Budget Director, told the Senate Committee in January that he believed the law is unconstitutional.

“The financing – which the administration deliberately implemented before the court’s intervention – is frozen programs that protect public health and the environment while increasing the costs of families. The Trump administration will raise energy costs for families and companies will lose thousands of potential jobs where programs such as solar energy and clean school bus discounts are completed.” . “Continuing to freeze these investments – or prohibiting them permanently – will make cash progress made by the agency towards clean air and clean water and cost American families and companies dearly.”

The message requires clarifications on the minimum executive request on “payments” and whether it only applies to the broader payments or financial obligations in the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as the financial years that affect it and the extent of the intended beneficiaries of the agency.

A spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency told that the agency “will review the message and will respond through the appropriate channels.”

Updated at 10:41 am EST