These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. Read to the end.
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings.
- Save America 's Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings.
- International Fund for Ireland . $17 million annual savings.
- Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings.
- National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings.
- National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings.
- Hope VI Program.. $250 million annual savings.
- Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings.
- Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
- U.S. Trade Development Agency. $55 million annual savings.
- Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy. $20 million annual savings.
- Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding. $47 million annual savings.
- John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 annual savings.
- Community Development Fund. $4.5 billion annual savings.
- Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid. $24 million annual savings.
- Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half. $7.5 billion annual savings
- Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million annual savings.
- Essential Air Service. $150 million annual savings.
- Technology Innovation Program. $70 million annual savings.
- Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program. $125 million annual savings.
- Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization. $530 million annual savings.
- Beach Replenishment. $95 million annual savings.
- New Starts Transit. $2 billion annual savings.
- Exchange Programs for Alaska , Natives Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts . $9 million annual savings
- Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 billion annual savings.
- Title X Family Planning. $318 million annual savings.
- Appalachian Regional Commission. $76 million annual savings.
- Economic Development Administration. $293 million annual savings.
- Programs under the National and Community Services Act. $1.15 billion annual savings.
- Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 billion annual savings.
- FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings.
- Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings.
- Economic Assistance to Egypt . $250 million annually.
- U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 billion annual savings.
- General Assistance to District of Columbia . $210 million annual savings.
- Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. $150 million annual savings.
- Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years.
- No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million annual savings.
- End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
- Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act. More than $1 billion annually.
- IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget. $1.8 billion savings over ten years..
- Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees. $1 billion total savings.WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees. $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
- Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of. $15 billion total savings.
- Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress. Lord help us!!!!!
- Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings.
- Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings
- Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million annual savings.
- USDA Sugar Program. $14 million annual savings.
- Subsidy to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). $93 million annual savings.
- Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. $56..2 million annual savings.
- Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs. $900 million savings.
- Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million savings..
- HUD Ph.D. Program.
- Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
- TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years
My question is, WHAT THE H__ is all this doing in the budget in the first place? |
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now start cutting defense as well!
ReplyDeleteReform every program/agency. Eliminate redundancy within the federal system alone will save from 200-400 billion ANNUALLY. We overspend by 1.6 trillion every year. 2.5 trillion over a decade is far from enough, but a decent start. We need to cut gov't by 1/3. Get a balanced budget amendment passed. Only pass tax cuts that have a matching reduction in spending. Eliminate subsidies for corporations/farmers/everyone.
ReplyDelete8:41....exactly! it is a start but hardly enough. The proposed annual budget is currently 3.4 trillion. This budget will be about $1 trillion too high. Right now we must borrow about 40 cents of every dollar we spend. These 220 millions dollar cuts politicians talk about are a joke. Token cuts made to express a posturing designed to assure good election numbers - not good fiscal sense. If they really wanted to fix the problems they should cut the amount necessary to balance the budget - what ever it takes - and enact a balance budget amendment. The federal government is bloated and broke. Thanks Woodrow Wilson and FDR. You sold us down the river.
ReplyDeletea million here and a million there and pretty soon we're talking about some real money! ;)
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable...Isn't there any accountability at the federal level????
ReplyDeleteThey gotta give money to their demo-cronies somehow!
ReplyDeletethere is probably a lot more that could be cut as well. this is perhaps the largest of dollar amounts for now.
ReplyDeletenow start cutting defense as well!
ReplyDeleteAre you serious?
We do not need a federal budget amendment. They know they should not over spend and they need to realize that it is the oveer taxed taxpayer's money they are spending.
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