“What the Fuck Is Going On” news: Trump’s budget plan edition (March 16th 2017)
Trump has released a partial outline of his 2018 budget and what agencies he’s proposing to cut down on or cut completely to pay for the large increases in military and homeland security spending. Here’s a breakdown of some of the cuts and changes:
Elimination of about 3,200 EPA staff positions (about 20%).
Eliminating all funding for enactment of the Clean Power Plan.
Discontinue funding for climate change research and international climate change programs.
Elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Elimination of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Elimination of the Legal Services Corporation.
Slightly increase funding on drinking and wastewater infrastructure.
$4 million increase for the State Revolving Funds.
All U.S. funding for climate-change initiatives at the United Nations.
Cut the U.S.’s regular contribution to the U.N.
Refusal to pay more than 25 percent of the cost of U.N. peacekeeping operations.
The World Bank would be trimmed by $650 million over 3 years.
Cuts to the National Forest System.
Eliminating loan and grant programs for water and sewage systems.
Scale back job training programs, including those aimed at helping seniors, disadvantaged young people and unemployed Americans.
Expand apprenticeship programs and training for disabled workers.
Eliminating some training grants for occupational safety and health administration.
Cuts to prison construction.
Eliminating $4.2 billion in community services programs like the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
Cut spending at the National Institutes of Health by $5.8 billion (about 18%).
Eliminating the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s grants and programs for coastal and marine management, research, and education.
Eliminating the Minority Business Development Agency, which supports minority-owned businesses.
$1.4 billion increase for public and private school choice programs.
Eliminating funding for before and after school and summer programs.
Federal work-study to be “significantly reduced.”
Eliminating the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant.
Reduced subsidies to Amtrak, including the reduction of all federal support for its long-distance train services.
Eliminating funding for programs that subsidizes commercial air flights from rural airports.
Eliminating the Community Development Block Grant Program, which funds local improvement efforts and anti-poverty programs - including a complete elimination of funding for Meals on Wheels.
Cutting funding for rental assistance.
Cutting funding for homeownership programs
Cutting funding for affordable housing initiatives.
Increase funding for programs that drill for oil and gas on public lands.
Cut funding for the National Heritage Areas.
Cut funding for the National Wildlife Fund.
Food for Peace Program will face “drastic reductions.“
Cutting the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative by 97 percent.
Cut $120 million from a program that acquires new federal lands.
Increase funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration by $1.4 billion (about 11%).
Fund $120 million to restart licensing of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility in Nevada.
Eliminating programs that support research of clean energy technology such as the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy and the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program.
Cuts to the Internal Revenue Service.
Here’s a breakdown of the current spending and what each program will lose or gain. Here’s another one.
Note that this does not mean that all of this will for sure happen, Congress may reject any of these proposed cuts and some will most definitely not get cut. However, many of these proposals have been targets for decades by republicans - who currently hold majority.
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