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Home Front Economy
What Got Cut in the Compromise?
2009-02-07
Mark Hemingway -- the list of "cuts" made to the the stimulus bill as part of the grand compromise:

  • $100 million FSA modernization

  • $50 million CSERES Research

  • $65 million Watershed Rehab

  • $30 million SD Salaries

  • $100 Distance Learning

  • $98 million School Nutrition

  • $50 million aquaculture

  • $2 billion broadband

  • $100 million NIST

  • $100 million NOAA

  • $100 million Law Enforcement Wireless

  • $50 million Detention Trustee

  • $25 million Marshalls Construction

  • $100 million FBI Construction

  • $300 million Federal Prisons

  • $300 million BYRNE Formula

  • $140 million BYRNE Competitive

  • $10 million State and Local Law Enforcement

  • $50 million NASA

  • $50 million Aeronautics

  • $50 million Exploration

  • $50 million Cross Agency Support

  • $200 million NSF

  • $100 million Science

  • $1 billion Energy Loan Guarantees

  • $4.5 billion GSA

  • $3.5 billion Federal Bldgs Greening

  • $89 million GSA Operations

  • $300 million Fed Hybrid Vehicles

  • $50 million from DHS

  • $200 million TSA

  • $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use

  • $25 million Fish and Wildlife

  • $55 million Historic Preservation

  • $20 million working capital fund

  • $200 million Superfund

  • $165 million Forest Svc Capital Improvement $90 million State & Private Wildlife Fire Management

  • $75 million Smithsonian

  • $1 billion Head Start/Early Start

  • $5.8 billion Health Prevention Activity

  • $2 billion HIT Grants

  • $600 million Title I (NCLB)

  • $16 billion School Construction

  • $3.5 billion Higher Ed Construction (Eliminated

  • $1.25 billion project based rental

  • $2.25 Neighborhood Stabilization (Eliminate)

  • $1.2 billion in Retrofiting Project 8 Housing
    • $40 billion State Fiscal Stabiization

    • $7.5 billion of State Incentive Grants
    Posted by:Sherry

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