List of Republican proposed budget cuts

[Derechos]

A list of specific cuts the RSC is proposing:

➢ 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.

➢ 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.

➢ 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.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/20/house-gop-gets-specific-on-cuts_n_811557.html

[Zoeisright]

1. Well, that should finish us off.

Thanks, you fucking repukes and the idiots who voted for you.

[jwirr]

14. And thanks to the dems who stayed home and did not vote.

[Robyn66]

15. No kidding

but their message was heard loud and clear, now we can all pay.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. A few of those I could get behind --

But much of them I find to be important to our country, our future, and our culture.

[indepat]

7. The aggregate of what will be sacrificed/gutted to pay for the tax cuts for our wealthy

surely defines us as a people for the rest of the world to see, marvel over, and snicker at the breadth and depth of its sheer destructive insanity. ;)

[Hell Hath No Fury]

9. Yup.

Disgusting, isn't it? :puke:

And we sit here and take it....

[leftynyc]

17. That is EXACTLY how this should

be framed. It should be the ad nauseum talking point. "In order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest, 30 million people will have to go without health care, etc"

[indepat]

18. Absolutely! What is being proposed and about to be done to social security and Medicare to pay for

these tax cuts surely are among the most diabolical, craven, heartless, evil, cruel, and senseless ever conceived/concocted by the government of a supposedly civilized society: Christian leaders of our "Christian" nation seem about to inflict some of the most uncivilized, un-Christian, and heinous acts on its people, short of direct murder, ever, all while wearing Jesus on their sleeves and piously pimping their own piety. :shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Whew! Thank God. I was afraid America would still exist in 2020.

Glad someone's working to tank it.

[Cheap_Trick]

4. I gots me an idea....

How about the GOP have Rummy dig up the $2.3 TRILLION dollars they "misplaced" when Shrub was in charge.

http://current.com/1sqp24c

[sharp_stick]

5. I notice they want to cut

economic assistance to Egypt ($250 mil annually) but they forgot to cut the economic assistance to Israel. Must be a simple oversight no?

Fuck I hate Republicans.

A 5% cut to the defense budget would likely take care of pretty much every penny on that list of theirs.

[NMDemDist2]

6. off to the Greatest with ya

it's practically a list of anything that has to do with the arts or supporting or educating the poor

oh, and don't forget Climate Change in any form.....

[abelenkpe]

8. K&R please read nt

[pokerfan]

10. Gotta pay for those tax cuts for the top 2%

[KamaAina]

11. Essential Air Service = flights to smaller cities in mostly Red states

Much hot air about "job-killing" has been spewed by repukes of late. Why then, are they trying to put cities throughout their base at a competitive disadvantage with the evil left-leaning metropoli?

And don't even get me started on Amtrak... :grr:

[patrice]

12. K&R

[LynneSin]

13. How many jobs will be lost with these cuts

I could see unemployment doubling with this.

[KamaAina]

16. Oh, man, DC is gonna get hammered.

And you just know one of the 'pukes will dangle this $$$ in front of them in exchange for going back on marriage equality. :grr: :banghead: