- 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.WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 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..
- HUD
Ph.D. Program.
- Deficit
Reduction Check-Off Act.
- TOTAL
SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years
My question is,
what THE HELL is all this doing in the budget in the first place?
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