- Small businesses: $81.1M in cuts to the Small Business Administration.
- Border security: $591.2M in cuts from Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
- FEMA: $1.49B cut from FEMA.
- Poison control: $27.3M cut from Poison Control Center.
- Public health: $850M in cuts to the CDC, with specific cuts called out for immunization and public health preparedness and response programs.
- Biological warfare protection: $304M in cuts to Project BioShield, a program first proposed and enacted under Republicans in 2004.
- Head Start: cuts $1.08B in Head Start program that helps the education and feeding of poor and homeless children in America.
- Social Security: cuts $625M from the SSA.
- Accountability: cuts $34M from the GAO.
- Retired Armed Forces: cuts $62.8M from the Armed Forces Retirement Home.
- Military realignment: cuts $5.1B from Republican 2005 Base Realignment and Closure plan (stops the consolidation of bases, to cut operational costs on the defense spending side).
- National infrastructure: cuts $600M from national infrastructure investments (repair national highways, bridges).
- Local law enforcement: cuts $1.08B from COPS program and state and local law enforcement assistance that was used to help local governments employ safety officers.
- Food safety: cuts $174.4M from Grain Inspection, Animal and Plant Health Inspection services (mad cow disease doesn't exist?)
- Clean coal: cuts $18M from research and development of clean coal -- apparently because Republicans do not believe the environment needs to be cleaned up, there's no point to investing in clean coal technology; dirty coal is perfectly fine, acid rain be damned.
- Strategic Petroleum Reserve: cuts $120.2M from increasing size of the SPR.
- Nuclear Energy: cuts $131.8M in support of regulatory program.
- Federal Judiciary: cuts $145.3M in salaries and expenses of judges, and paying jurors.
source: GOP House, list of continuing resolution proposal of cuts for FY2011.
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