‘Cataclysmic’: Environmentalists Fear Effects of Trump Cuts on Great Lakes

Advocates warn that Trump and Musk’s funding freezes and mass federal firings threaten decades of progress in restoring the Great Lakes. Cuts to invasive species control, clean water enforcement, and pollution monitoring risk poisoning drinking water, collapsing fisheries, and undermining a $750 billion regional economy. Experts caution that progress can unravel far faster than it was built.