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