House Democrats hit back at the proposed budget cuts for the Environmental Protection Agency a day after Republicans touted keeping the agency at its lowest staffing level in 30 years.

Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., said in a meeting of the House Appropriations Committee’s Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Subcommittee that the $32.1 billion budget would hurt the EPA’s ability to do its job. The budget proposes spending $164 million less on the EPA than last year and almost $300 million less than President Obama proposed in his fiscal 2017 budget proposal.