Two U.S. Senators are fighting back against President Obama’s proposal to cut funding for the Drinking Water and Clean Water State Revolving Fund (SRF) programs next year, circulating a letter on Capitol Hill calling for “continued robust investment” in water infrastructure spending.
Authored by Senate Water and Wildlife Subcommittee Chairman Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Idaho Republican Sen. Mike Crapo, the letter expresses opposition to the President’s request to cut $581 million from the SRF programs in the next fiscal year. The letter does not request a specific level of FY15 SRF funding but calls it “critically important to provide the most robust possible federal investment in our nation’s safe and clean water infrastructure.”
Sens. Cardin and Crapo are soliciting other members of the Senate to join them in signing the letter, so AMWA members are urged to ask their U.S. Senators to do so. The deadline for senators to sign is April 7, and AMWA members may contact Dan Hartnett ([email protected]) if they would like assistance in writing to their senators with this request.