Proposed Budget Cuts By The New Republican House Of Representatives

Below are some programs which the "new" Republican U.S. House of Representatives has proposed to cut from the federal budget:

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: 68 duplicative "education programs" --- [H.R. 2274 to eliminate the "duplicate programs" was authored/introduced in Congress by Howard McKeon, R-California] = $1.3 billion annual savings

U.S. Trade Development Agency = $55 million annual savings

Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy = $20 million annual savings

50% Cut: 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

50% Cut: Federal Travel Budget = $7.5 billion annual savings

20% Cut: Federal Vehicle Budget = $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 DC Metropolitan Area Transit Authority = $150 million annual savings

Presidential Campaign Fund = $775 million savings over 10 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 savings 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

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 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: the 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 = at least $2.5 TRILLION approx.!

The BIG questions are:

1) WHAT [the HELL] are all these 54 items doing in the U.S. budget in the first place?

2) HOW and WHY [the HELL] did they get on the federal budget to begin with?
Additionally. . .

Require collection of UNPAID taxes by federal employees which amounts to $1 billion in UNCOLLECTED tax revenue!

3) WHY have federal employees been allowed to NOT pay these taxes?

4) WHO allowed federal employees to NOT pay these taxes?

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