Riley Moore and Carol Miller asked for clean water money from a fund Trump wants to cut
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Last week, Rep. Riley Moore rose from his chair in a budget committee meeting to ask for help with West Virginia’s drinking water.
He told his colleagues, “Between 2016 and 2024, nearly one million West Virginians, about half of the state’s population, were served by systems violating federal standards.”
The following day, lawmakers did not agree to fund a $250 million request for water projects both he and fellow West Virginia Rep. Carol Miller submitted earlier this spring.
Moore’s unsuccessful bid for money for clean drinking water is one more chapter in an uphill battle for the state. Just this year, lawmakers in Charleston spent little to fix the state’s $16-20 billion water and sewer problem.
Community advocates turned to their federal representatives for help.
Moore and Miller, like most Republicans, have supported President Donald Trump’s agenda to slash federal spending through their votes, public statements and photo o…