Republicans Look To Cut ‘Global Warming’ Research From The Defense Budget

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Daily Caller:

Republican lawmakers have unveiled their 2016 budget proposal, which looks eliminate the budget deficit in the next decade and that means spending cuts. One place, in particular, the GOP is looking to cut: federal defense spending on global warming research.

 

Republicans have proposed cutting global warming research programs at the Defense Department and the CIA.

 

“The Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, two of the most important agencies in our national security apparatus, currently spend part of their budget studying climate change,” the GOP’s budget notes in a section detailing ways to “eliminate redundancies and end the abuse or misuse of taxpayer dollars.”

 

Republicans have long been critical of Pentagon efforts to “go green” and reduce their reliance on fossil fuels — remember the Navy’s costly “Green Fleet”? More recently, the GOP has criticized President Barack Obama for saying that global warming was as a bigger national security threat than terrorism.