President Trump’s FY2021 budget for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers repeats a familiar playbook used by both his and previous administrations to impose deep spending cuts for the agency that oversees the inland waterways system and new fees on the navigation industry that Congress has continually rejected.
The budget proposal that was sent by the White House to Congress on Monday envisions a 22% reduction to the Corps’ civil works budget, from the current enacted level of $7.7 billion to $5.966...