by 2019, only Commerce, with a 7 percent increase, remained). Each of the proposed budgets would have cut State Department funding by between 24 and 33 percent, EPA funding by between 25 and 31 percent, and HUD funding by between 13 and 19 percent. The heads of the agencies did not object, leaving it up to Congress to continue funding an administration that wished to disinvest in itself.
