The Trump administration’s fiscal 2026 Interior Department budget proposal made public late Friday would slash funding and staffing across a wide array of programs, many of them with proven political appeal across party lines.
The budget proposal also calls for the elimination of major programs, including the Bureau of Land Management’s onshore renewable energy program and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s offshore wind program.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s entire “ecosystems” program budget likewise would drop from the fiscal 2025 level of about $293 million to zero in fiscal 2026.
In an accompanying budget summary, the USGS explains that the plan would eliminate the Ecosystems Mission Area, including grants to universities that duplicate other research programs or that support “social agendas [such as] climate change research.”
