House appropriators released an Environmental Protection Agency spending bill Tuesday that drastically reduces the number of cuts proposed by President Trump but does support cutting the agency’s staff by more than 3,000 people and rescinding regulations.

The bill funds the EPA at $1.9 billion above Trump’s requested budget at $7.5 billion for fiscal 2018, which is $528 million less than the fiscal 2017 enacted level. Trump had proposed reducing the agency’s budget by more than 31 percent, one of the biggest reductions among all federal agencies.

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