PROGRAMS the Republican House has proposed CUTTING

[Warph]

These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting.
7-19-2012

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 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.
* 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 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, 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?

[srkruzich]

one such subsidy i see that they list isn't even a subsidy it was cancelled years ago and thats the mohair subsidy.   There is no subsidy for it. I've looked and its discontinued.

[Wilma]

So why don't they?

[jarhead]

Steve,
Why did the government ever subsidize mole hair in the first place? Hells bells, an ol mole aint got enough hair to make a stole for a church mouse. You have any idea how many mole you would have to skin to-----------------------------------------Whoops---misread that---you said "mohair--not mole hair

[Warph]

Now, here is the kicker... according to Truth and Fiction, this is how the list turned out:

The Truth:  

The list was real according to a January 20, 2011 US News article but these were the original cuts proposed by the 212th Congress, under the leadership of John Boehner.

On April 8, 2011, the New York Times reported that the Democratic controlled Senate, under the leadership of Harry Reid, fought the budget cuts to the point where government almost shut down.    Intervention by President Obama prompted last minute closed door negotiations between the two party leaders at the White House.  This resulted in $38 Billion in spending cuts, an amount much smaller than the original proposal.

About the budget battle Senator Reid said, "We didn't do it at this late hour for drama." The Senate Majority Leader then added, "We did it because it has been hard to arrive at this point."

GOP House Majority Leader Boehner said, "This has been a lot of discussion and a long fight, but we fought to keep government spending down because it really will in fact help create a better environment for job creators in our country."

On April 8, the Senate approved the stopgap measure shortly before the midnight deadline where government would come to a stand still.  The New York Times article said that Congress approved it shortly after midnight and, "The Office of Management and Budget issued a memo saying normal government operations were back on track."

The agreed budget cuts were posted in a blog on the White House web site and a list can be found in an April 9 article on The Hill, a web site that reports on government business in Washington.   They are:

    $13 billion from funding for programs at the Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services
    over $1 billion in a cut across non-defense agencies
    reductions to housing assistance programs and some health care programs
    $8 billion in cuts to our budget for State and Foreign Operations
    $630 million in earmarked transportation projects
    at least $2.5 billion in transportation funding that is ready to be earmarked
    $35 million by ending the Crop Insurance Good Performance Rebate
    $30 million for a job training program that was narrowly targeted at certain student loan processors
    $18 billion in cuts deemed unnecessary by the Pentagon

one such subsidy i see that they list isn't even a subsidy it was cancelled years ago and thats the mohair subsidy.   There is no subsidy for it. I've looked and its discontinued.

As to the Mohair Subsidies.  It began in 1949, when mohair was used in military uniforms.  Bill Clinton did away with it in 1995.  It was back in in the budget 2001.  Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R) and Anthony Weiner (D) began working on legislation to end the program.  Weiner successfully pushed through an amendment in 2001 that ended the subsidy for a year, but it came back the next year... 2002.  Now as far as I know, it is still on the books budget wise.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38379.html

[Bullwinkle]

     One that should be cut NOW is giving ethanol producers a subsidy. It was fine to get them started up, but now agriculture and food producers have to compete for corn at a disadvantage, especially with the reduced production due to drought.