"Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke defended the Trump administration’s budget request for the department as 'what a balanced budget looks like' in the face of bipartisan criticism on Thursday.
Members of a House Appropriations Committee subcommittee raised a handful of complaints about the $10.6 billion budget request for the Interior Department.
The budget proposal is $1.6 billion, or 13 percent, lower than current levels, and it slashes funding from programs members said Thursday they support."
Devin Henry reports for The Hill June 8, 2017.
Source: The Hill, 06/09/2017
