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Proposed Federal Agency Budget Cuts

Press Release
February 8th, 2010

- Environmental Protection Agency: 

  • Eliminate the Clean Air and Global Climate Change Goal – SAVINGS: $1.19 billion.
  • Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River Basin, Great Lakes Restoration Projects – SAVINGS: $321 million.

 - Department of Interior

  • Eliminate the Rural Development Public Television Program – SAVINGS: $4.8 million.

- Department of Energy:         

  • Eliminate inefficient technology as identified by the DOE Inspector General – SAVINGS: $13.8 million.
  • Eliminate ethanol subsidies – SAVINGS: $7 billion.

- Department of State:   

  • Reduce U.S. contributions to the United Nations – SAVINGS: $2 billion.

- Department of Agriculture:

  • Reduction in discretionary spending – SAVINGS: $2.5 billion.

- Department of Health and Human Services:

  • Eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse – SAVINGS: $100 billion.

- General Budget:

  • Cancel the expenditure of federal funds held by federal agencies for more than 2 years – SAVINGS: $100 billion.
  • Cancel the expenditure of TARP funds – SAVINGS: $700 billion.
  • Cancel the expenditure of remaining stimulus funds – SAVINGS: $500 billion.
  • Eliminate the National Endowment of the Arts – SAVINGS: $161.3 million.
  • Eliminate earmark spending – SAVINGS: $7.7 billion.
  • Disposal of unused or under used federal properties – SAVINGS: $1.6 billion, Potential Revenue: $83.8 billion.
  • Cut Political Science Funding from the National Science Foundation Budget – SAVINGS: $10 million.
  • Cut the congressional budget for itself – SAVINGS: $245 million.
  • Eliminate the Corporation for National and Community Service – SAVINGS: $1.4 billion.
  • Consolidation of duplicative programs cuts in wasteful spending, repeal of excessive overhead within the federal government – SAVINGS: $22 Billion. 

- Department of Education:

  • Reduction in Discretionary Spending – SAVINGS: $45 billion.


TOTAL POTENTIAL SAVINGS: $1,491,151,000,000
TOTAL POTENTIAL REVENUE: $83,800,000,000


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