OK. So this is from the 2008 budget [link to spreadsheets], but I heard Boehner wants to cut spending to 2008 levels, so maybe using the 2008 budget is more appropriate it might have first appeared.
Rationale for cuts included:
- Not a core function of federal government
- Should be funded by State governments
- Should be funded by Local governments
- Industry can police itself
- These funds can be invested in the market for better return
- Can be subcontracted to private sector
- I don’t know what this is, or what constituency it is serving. I’m assuming they don’t vote.
Sorry about the formatting.
Amount Cut Agency name
$5,000,000 Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
$307,000,000 Affordable Housing Program
$83,000,000 Appalachian Regional Commission
$6,000,000 Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board
$4,000,000 Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
$663,000,000 Broadcasting Board of Governors
$9,000,000 Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
$2,000,000 Commission of Fine Arts
$9,000,000 Commission on Civil Rights
$5,000,000 Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
$114,000,000 Commodity Futures Trading Commission
$63,000,000 Consumer Product Safety Commission
$1,000,000,000 Corporation for National and Community Service
$350,000,000 Corporation for Public Broadcasting
$4,137,000,000 Corps of Engineers-Civil Works
$7,000,000 Delta Regional Authority
$74,000,000 Denali Commission
$54,772,000,000 Dept. of Agriculture
$6,159,000,000 Dept. of Commerce
$71,272,000,000 Dept. of Defense--Military
$62,952,000,000 Dept. of Education
$6,728,000,000 Dept. of Energy
$951,929,000,000 Dept. of Health and Human Services
$571,000,000 Dept. of Homeland Security
$47,828,000,000 Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
$148,000,000 Dept. of Justice
$55,005,000,000 Dept. of Labor
$8,189,000,000 Dept. of State
$13,223,000,000 Dept. of the Interior
$5,738,000,000 Dept. of the Treasury
$65,914,000,000 Dept. of Transportation
$12,000,000 Election Assistance Commission
$100,000,000 Electric Reliability Organization
$9,033,000,000 Environmental Protection Agency
$327,000,000 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
$14,000,000 Executive Office of the President
$82,000,000 Export-Import Bank of the United States
$8,126,000,000 Federal Communications Commission
$444,000,000 Federal Drug Control Programs
$58,000,000 Federal Election Commission
$24,000,000 Federal Labor Relations Authority
$22,000,000 Federal Maritime Commission
$44,000,000 Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
$84,000,000 Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
$3,000,000 General Services Administration
$3,000,000 Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
$7,000,000 Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development
$299,000,000 Institute of Museum and Library Services
$18,440,000,000 International Assistance Programs
$2,000,000 James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
$3,000,000 Japan-United States Friendship Commission
$489,000,000 Legislative Branch
$2,000,000 Marine Mammal Commission
$38,000,000 Merit Systems Protection Board
$5,000,000 Morris K. Udall Scholarship & Excellence in Nat'l Environmental Policy Foundation
$17,278,000,000 National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$8,000,000 National Capital Planning Commission
$3,000,000 National Council on Disability
$128,000,000 National Endowment for the Arts
$144,000,000 National Endowment for the Humanities
$254,000,000 National Labor Relations Board
$12,000,000 National Mediation Board
$6,028,000,000 National Science Foundation
$120,000,000 Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
$11,000,000 Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
$11,000,000 Office of Government Ethics
$8,000,000 Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation
$2,000,000 Office of the Federal Coordinator for AL Natural Gas Transport. Projects
$66,000,000 Other Defense Civil Programs
$81,000,000 Postal Service
$12,410,000,000 Railroad Retirement Board
$751,000,000 Small Business Administration
$815,000,000 Smithsonian Institution
$635,674,000,000 Social Security Administration
$23,000,000 Standard Setting Body
$464,000,000 Tennessee Valley Authority
$29,000,000 Undistributed Offsetting Receipts
$46,000,000 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
$30,000,000 United States Institute of Peace
$2,000,000 United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
Total Savings: $2,069,325,000,000
