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 Corporatinmon --
$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 duplicating 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.
* Freedom CAR 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.
* E nd 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 THE HELL IS THIS ABOUT?
* 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. WHAT???
* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1
million annual savings.
* Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to
the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million
annual savings WELL
ISN'T THAT SPECIAL
* Eliminate Market Access Program
-- $200 million annual savings.
* USDA Sugar Program -- $14
million annual savings.
* Subsidy to Organization 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.. WHY?????
* HUD Ph.D. Program.
* Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
* TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over
Ten Years
My question is, what is all this
crap doing in the budget in the first place ?
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