After a weekend wildfire near Boulder, Colo., forced almost 20,000 people to evacuate their homes, President Joe Biden is requesting an increase of $2.8 billion in budgets for the Interior Department.
President Joe Biden is seeking congressional budget approval for spending he argues can fortify how the government prevents devastating wildfires and takes other steps to limit and respond to climate change.
For the Interior Department, the agency that oversees the nation’s 500 million acres of public lands, Biden is requesting $17.5 billion, an increase of $2.8 billion, or 19%, from what was approved for 2021. In all, Biden is proposing a total of $5.8 trillion in federal spending in fiscal 2023, which begins in October. The higher taxes targeted to pay for the spending would raise $361 billion in revenue over 10 years and apply to the top 0.01% of households. The proposal lists another $1.4 trillion in revenue raised over the next decade through other tax increases but still in keeping with Biden’s pledge to not hike taxes on people earning less than $400,000.
The budget requests $1.4 billion for the agency’s Bureau of Land Management, which oversees that drilling, and $237 million for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which oversees offshore drilling. The agency would also spend $4.5 billion to help tribal nations, $1 billion above the 2021 enacted level.
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