7.2 FRQ

One of the biggest reductions [under the Trump administration] had been at the Bureau of Prisons, which lost 2,320 permanent workers at a time when the Justice Department plans to return to using private prisons to house some federal inmates. . . . The Census Bureau, which has not received its full budget request from Congress for multiple years, fell by more than 21,000 employees. The Environmental Protection Agency, where Administrator Scott Pruitt has moved quickly to reverse a generation of environmental protections and rules, was down 508 employees.
—Lisa Rein and Andrew Ba Tran, “How the Trump era is changing the federal bureaucracy, Washington Post, December 30, 2017

Describe the action taken by the Trump administration in the scenario.

In the context of the scenario, describe an action Congress could take to respond to the action described in part A.

 Explain how the action described in the scenario might impact efforts to enforce laws that protect the environment.