Senate Democrats push to defund Trump’s ‘fake panel’ on climate change

By Susan Ferrechio

Published February 26, 2019 5:08pm ET

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Senate Democrats push to defund Trump’s ‘fake panel’ on climate change — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined at left by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, speaks to reporters about the bipartisan compromise worked out last night by Leahy and others in hope of averting another government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Democrats will introduce legislation to defund a White House group on climate change that Democrats fear will be stacked with climate change skeptics.

Schumer called the National Security Council-led group a “fake panel of cherry-picked scientists who question the severity of climate change in order to counter the scientific consensus on this terribly urgent problem.”

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