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Home Front: Politix
USA Today: The 62 agencies and programs Trump wants to eliminate
2017-03-17
[USA Today] WASHINGTON -- President Trump's proposed budget takes a cleaver to domestic programs, with many agencies taking percentage spending cuts in the double digits.

But for dozens of smaller agencies and programs, the cut is 100%.

Community development block grants. The Weatherization Assistance Program. The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. The National Endowment for the Arts. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. All would be axed if Congress adopts Trump's budget.

Also proposed for elimination are lesser-known bureaucracies like the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Program, the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program and the Inter-American Foundation.

Many of those programs have constituencies in states and cities across the country -- and their champions in Congress. "The president's beholden to nobody but the people who elected him, and yes, I understand that every lawmaker over there has pet projects," said Trump budget director Mick Mulvaney. "That's the nature of the beast."

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Posted by:Besoeker

#6  A lot of little programs - somebody's pet. Some get turned over to the states, which they ain't gonna like, unless --

Unless some of the unfunded mandates go away, too.
Posted by: Bobby   2017-03-17 14:05  

#5  Trump should announce all the 'stuff' that is for sale. We need a 4 year national yard sale: land, buildings, equipment...
Posted by: Airandee   2017-03-17 13:52  

#4  With these cuts congress has the chance to trade support for trumps health care for their pet pork. Old school politics at work here.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2017-03-17 12:33  

#3  A federal judge placing a restraining order in 5..4..3
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-03-17 12:08  

#2  Thank the Maker! My phony-baloney job isn't on that list!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2017-03-17 11:53  

#1  a good start.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-03-17 10:22  

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