Washington • President Donald Trump proposed a budget would slash the Interior Department’s spending by 14 percent, speed up oil and gas exploration and reduce money for the government to buy up new land for preservation.
Trump’s $4.7 trillion budget plan, which Congress is unlikely to take up, would also move staff of the Interior’s headquarters in Washington out West, though it doesn’t detail where. Officials have mentioned Salt Lake City as a possible new home for the Bureau of Land Management.
Overall, the spending package is a Trump wish list: Tossing in $750 billion for new defense spending and $8.