Bush's Proposed Program Cuts
Program cuts proposed in the Bush budget:
Programs Bush Wants to Cut or Kill, Associated Press: The 141 programs that President Bush proposed to eliminate or cut in his 2007 budget, with potential savings in millions:
TERMINATIONS:
AGRICULTURE
- Microbiological data program, $6 million.
- Community Connect broadband grants, $9 million.
- Commodity supplemental food program, $107 million.
- Research and extension grant earmarks, $196 million.
- Ocean freight differential grants, $77 million.
- Forest service economic action program, $10 million.
- High cost energy grants, $26 million.
- Public broadcast grants, $5 million.
- Watershed protection and flood prevention operations, $75 million.
Total $511 million
COMMERCE
- Advanced technology program, $79 million.
- Emergency steel guarantee loan program $49 million
- Telecommunications construction grants $22 million
Total $150 million
EDUCATION
- Educational technology state grants, $272 million
- Even Start, $99 million
- High school programs terminations:
- Vocational education state grants, $1,182 million
- Vocational education national programs, $9 million
- Upward Bound, $311 million
- GEAR UP, $303 million
- Talent search, $145 million
- Tech prep state grants, $105 million
- Smaller learning communities, $94 million
- Safe and Drug-Free Schools state grants, $347 million
- Elementary and secondary education program terminations:
- Parental information and resource centers, $40 million
- Arts in education, $35 million
- Elementary and secondary school counseling, $35 million
- Alcohol abuse reduction, $32 million
- Civic education, $29 million
- National Writing Project, $22 million
- Star Schools, $15 million
- School leadership,$15 million
- Ready to Teach, $11 million
- Javits gifted and talented education, $10 million
- Exchanges with Historic Whaling and Trading Partners, $9 million
- Comprehensive school reform, $8 million
- Dropout prevention program, $5 million
- Mental Health integration in schools, $5 million
- Women's Educational Equity, $3 million
- Academies for American History and Civics, $2 million
- Close-Up fellowships, $1 million
- Foundations for Learning, $1 million
- Excellence in Economic Education, $1 million
- Higher Education Programs:
- Education demos for students with disabilities, $7 million
- Underground Railroad Program, $2 million
- State grants for incarcerated youth offenders, $23 million
- Postsecondary Student Financial Assistance Programs:
- Perkins Loan cancellations, $65 million
- Leveraging educational assistance programs, $65 million
- Byrd Scholarships, $41 million
- Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational opportunity, $3 million
- B.J. Stupak Olympic scholarships, $1 million
- Vocational rehabilitation programs:
- Supported employment, $30 million
- Projects with industry, $20 million
- Recreational programs, $3 million
- Migrant and seasonal farmworkers,$2 million
- Teacher Quality Enhancement, $60 million
Total $3,468 million
ENERGY
- University nuclear energy program, $27 million
- Oil and gas research and development, $64 million
- Geothermal technology program, $23 million
Total $114 million
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
- Centers for Disease Control preventive block grant, $99 million
- Real Choice System Change grants, $25 million
- Community services block grant, $630 million
- Community economic development, $27 million
- Rural community facilities, $7 million
- Job opportunities for low-income individuals, $6 million
- Maternal and child health small categorical grants, $39 million
- Urban Indian Health Program, $33 million
Total $866 million
HOMELAND SECURITY
- Office of grants and training, $229 million
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
- HOPE VI, $198 million
INTERIOR
- Bureau of Indian Affairs Johnson-O'Malley assistance grants, $16 million
- Land and water conservation fund state recreation grants, $28 million
- National Park Service statutory aid, $7 million
- Rural fire assistance, $10 million
Total $61 million
JUSTICE
- Byrne discretionary grants, $189 million
- Byrne justice assistance grants, $327 million
- Community Oriented Policing Services technology grants, $128 million
- Juvenile accountability block grants, $49 million
- National Drug Intelligence Center, $23 million
- State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, $400 million
Total $1,116 million
LABOR
- America's Job Bank, $15 million
- Denali Commission job training earmark, $7 million
- Migrant and seasonal farmworkers training program, $79 million
- Reintegration of youthful offenders, $49 million
- Susan Harwood training grants, $10 million
- Work incentive grants, $20 million
Total $180 million
TRANSPORTATION
- National defense tank vessel construction program, $74 million
- Railroad rehabilitation financing loan program, $0 million (no funds were enacted in 2006)
Total $74 million
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
- Unrequested projects, $277 million
OTHER AGENCIES
- National Civilian Community Corps, $22 million
- President's Freedom scholarships, $4 million
- National Veterans Business Development Corporation, $1 million
- Small Business Administration microloan program, $14 million
- Postal Service forgone revenue appropriation, $29 million
Total $70 million
MAJOR REDUCTIONS:
AGRICULTURE
- Conservation operations, $77 million
- Resource conservation and development program, $25 million
- State and private forestry, $100 million
- In-house research, $123 million
- Environmental quality incentives program, $270 million
- Market access program, $100 million
- Rural Economic development grants, $89 million
- Watershed rehabilitation program, $ 65 million
- Farmland protection program, $47 million
- Value-added marketing grants, $40 million
- Wildlife habitat incentives program, $30 million
- Agricultural management assistance, $14 million
- Broadband, $10 million
- Ground and surface water conservation, $9 million
- Renewable energy program, $3 million
- Biomass research and development, $2 million
Total $1004 million
COMMERCE
- Manufacturing extension partnership, $59 million
- Technology administration, $5 million
Total $64 million
EDUCATION
- Perkins Loans Institutional Fund recall, $664 million
- Teaching American history, $71 million
- Physical education, $47 million
- Mentoring program, $30 million
Total 811 million
ENERGY
- Environmental management, $762 million
- Weatherization assistance program, $79 million
- Clean Coal Power initiative, $45 million
Total $886 million
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
- Health Resources and Service Administration- Children's Graduate Medical Education, $198
- HRSA Health professions, $136 million
- HRSA Poison control centers, $10 million
- HRSA Rural health, $133 million
- Social Services block grant, $500 million
- Substance abuse and mental health programs, $71 million
Total $1,048 million
HOMELAND SECURITY
- Office of grants and training, $694 million
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
- Public housing capital fund, $261 million
INTERIOR
- BIA school construction, $50 million
- Bureau of Reclamation reductions, $127 million
- USGS Mineral Resources program, $22 million
Total $199 million
LABOR
- State job training grants consolidation, $514 million
- International Labor Affairs Bureau, $61 million
- Office of Disability Employment Policy, $8 million
Total $583 million
TRANSPORTATION
- Amtrak, $394 million
- Federal Aviation Administration, Airport improvement program, $765 million
Total $1,159 million
TREASURY
- Internal Revenue Service business systems modernization, $30 million
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
- Alaska Native villages, $19 million
- Clean water state revolving fund, $199 million
Total $218 million
INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
- Assistance for Eastern European democracy, $83 million
- Assistance for the state of the former Soviet Union, $68 million
Total $160 million
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
- Aeronautics Mission Research Directorate, $160 million
OTHER AGENCIES
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting, $114 million
- Denali Commission, $47 million
- National Archives and Records Administration, $8 million
Total $169 million
Posted by Mark Thoma on Saturday, February 11, 2006 at 12:59 AM in Budget Deficit, Economics, Taxes | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Comments (4)
Thank God at least some pork is being trimmed. I bet though that Congress won't have the guts to follow through, especially with the usual suspects crying that this will destroy our educational system, or somehow kill all of the poor. It seems to me that half of the proposed cuts deal with subsidies to businesses and the other half is spilt between grants and useless programs like job training and drug-free education that don't work. There's plenty of money for education, the problem is that administrators have no incentive to spend the money on students in the classroom. Hiring more staff and buying more equiptment so that they don't have to work is what the money gets spent on. If student test scores drop, you can be sure they won't be held accountable. Instead, that'll serve as just another excuse to demand more money.
Posted by: Libertarian | Link to comment | Feb 11, 2006 at 02:36 AM
ENERGY
* Environmental management, $762 million
* Weatherization assistance program, $79 million
* Clean Coal Power initiative, $45 million
Total $886 million
Wasn't Bush 43 tooting his environmentally-friendly energy horn during the State of Delusion address? I guess this is the cold, hard reality.
Posted by: Emmanuel | Link to comment | Feb 11, 2006 at 05:57 AM
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/opinion/04dowd.html
February 4, 2006
Oilman Plays Ozone Man
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON
The Saudi ambassador summoned me to the embassy on Thursday, across the street from the Watergate.
He wanted to know if Americans were still addicted to oil.
I assured him we were.
Prince Turki al-Faisal, the charming new envoy from the royal family, was confused about W.'s suddenly morphing into Ozone Man, as Poppy Bush called Al Gore in '92. At the State of the Union address at the Capitol Tuesday night, the prince watched with chagrin as the ex-Texas oilman urged breaking our dependence by replacing most Mideast oil imports with wood chips and ethanol, a word usually heard only quadrennially when pols pander during the Iowa caucuses.
The prince, dressed in long white robe and checkered headdress, explained that last fall, when Condi Rice was in Jidda, the Saudis and the U.S. launched a "strategic dialogue," which included a promise by the Saudis to pump more oil. And now the president promises that the U.S. will need less oil.
Which way are the desert winds blowing?
I told the prince it was politics. W. is just mouthing conservation arguments to offset Americans' disgust at the obscene profits of Exxon Mobil and Halliburton, high gas prices and a conflict in Iraq that Rummy now gallingly dubs "the long war." Shouldn't it be "the wrong war"? ...
Posted by: anne | Link to comment | Feb 11, 2006 at 06:46 AM
We are tens of billions away from the target. We can play games that the cuts are the wrong ones but that is just politics.
Anne please use reason versus the NYTs as a rhetorical tool. Could you also be less bipartisan.
Posted by: val | Link to comment | Feb 11, 2006 at 08:47 AM