Monday, March 14, 2011

GOP. Cuts for America.

  • 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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