House GOP Spending Cuts

February 17, 2011

Our government is broke and House Republicans are working to rein in wasteful government spending. Below is an initial list of 148 programs that will be terminated saving our country $100 billion. This effort marks a starting point in House Republicans’ efforts…keep an eye out for more.

  • Advanced Credentialing – $10.7M
  • Agricultural Research Service, Building and Facilities – $70.8
  • Alaska Native Education Equity – $33.3M
  • Alcohol Abuse Reduction – $32.7M
  • Arts in Education – $40M
  • Asian Development Fund – $105M
  • BLM Ecosystem Assessments – $4.5 M
  • BLM Seed Preservation (climate change funding) – $3 M
  • BLM, Challenge Cost Share – $9.5 M
  • Broadband Direct Loans – $28.9M
  • Buying Power Maintenance Account – $8.5M
  • Byrd Honors Scholarships – $42M
  • Career Pathways Innovation Fund – $125M
  • Carol M. White Physical Education Program – $79M
  • Civic Education – $35M
  • Close Up Fellowships – $2M
  • Complex Crisis Fund – $50M
  • Congenital Disabilities – $.5M
  • Conservation Loans, Direct Subsidy – $1M
  • Conservation Loans, Guaranteed Subsidy – $.3M
  • Contribution to the Clean Technology Fund – $300M
  • Contribution to the Strategic Climate Fund – $75M
  • Cops Hiring – $298M
  • Corporation for National and Community Service – $1B
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting – $86M
  • Demonstration in Disabilities / Higher Education – $6.8M
  • DOJ Weed and Seed Fund – $20M
  • Economic Development Fund for Community Services Block Grant – $36M
  • Education for Native Hawaiians – $34M
  • Educational Technology State Grants – $100M
  • Eisenhower Memorial Commission – $19M
  • Election Assistance Grants – $75M
  • Elementary and Secondary School Counseling – $55M
  • Eliminate no-year flu funding – $276M
  • Emergency Steel Loan Guarantees (rescission) – $48M
  • EPA cap and trade technical assistance – $5M
  • EPA local climate change grants – $10M
  • EPA targeted air-shed grants – $20M
  • Even Start – $66.5M
  • Excellence in Economic Education – $1.5M
  • Exchanges with Historic Whaling Partners – $8.8M
  • Family Planning – $317.5M
  • Federal Payments to DC:
    • Forensics Lab – $15M
    • Chief Financial Officer – $1.85M
    • Reconnecting Disconnected Youth – $4M
  • Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants – $757.5M
  • FHWA Surface Transportation Priorities – $293M
  • Foreign Language Assistance – $27M
  • FRA High Speed Rail – $5B
  • FRA Rail Line Relocation Program – $34.5M
  • FRA Railroad Safety Technology Program – $50M
  • FS, State and Private Forestry (Forest Legacy) – $70M
  • FTA Energy Efficiency Grants – $75M
  • FTA WMATA Grants – $150M
  • Fund for the Improvement of Education (FIE) – $261M
  • Fund for the Improvement of Postsec. Ed. (FIPSE) – $159.4M
  • FWS Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund – $83M
  • FWS National Fish Habitat Action Plan (climate change funding) – $2M
  • FWS National Wildlife Refuge System (climate change funding) – $12M
  • FWS North American Wetlands Conservation Fund – $48 M
  • FWS Partners: private lands (climate change funding) – $6 M
  • FWS State and Tribal Wildlife Grants – $90M
  • FWS, Challenge Cost Share – $6.5M
  • Global Crop Diversity Trust – $10M
  • Green Jobs Innovation Fund – $40M
  • Hazardous Materials Management – $5.1M
  • High Energy Cost Grant Program – $17.5M
  • High School Graduation Initiative – $50M
  • HUD Brownfields – $17.5M
  • HUD Energy Innovation Fund – $50M
  • HUD HOPE VI – $200M
  • HUD Housing Counseling Assistance – $87.5M
  • HUD Native Hawaiian Housing Grants – $13M
  • Indian Highly Fractionated Land Loan Program – $.8M
  • International Fund for Ireland – $17M
  • LEAP program – $64M
  • Legal Assistance Loan Repayment Program – $5M
  • Literacy through School Libraries – $19M
  • MARAD Assistance to Small Shipyards – $15M
  • Mathematics and Science Partnerships – $180.5M
  • Medical Countermeasures Dispensing – $10M
  • Mental Health Integration – $6M
  • Mentoring Children of Prisoners – $49 M
  • Multi-family Rural Housing, Revitalization Program
  • Multi-family Rural Housing, Revitalization Program – $25M
  • National All-Schedules Prescription Monitoring – $2M
  • National Infrastructure Investments – $600M
  • National Writing Project – $25.7M
  • NIST Construction Grants – $20M
  • Northern Border Regional Commission – $1.5M
  • NPS Climate Change Monitoring System $3M
  • NPS Climate Change response office – $1.5M
  • NPS LWCF State Assistance – $40M
  • NPS Park Partnership grants – $15M
  • NPS Preserve America grants – $4.6 M
  • NPS Save America’s Treasures grants – $25M
  • NPS Statutory or Contractual Aid – $5.85M
  • NTIA Public Telecom Facilities Construction – $20M
  • Office of Advocacy and Outreach – $1.7M
  • Office of Tribal Relations – $1M
  • ONDCP Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center – $5M
  • ONDCP Youth Media Campaign – $45M
  • Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation – $37.5M
  • Patient Navigator – $5M
  • Preservation Loans – $1.8M
  • Programs for BA Degrees in STEM and Critical Foreign Languages – $1.1M
  • Programs for MA Degrees in STEM and Critical Foreign Languages – $1.1M
  • Projects with industry – $19.2M
  • Reading is Fundamental – $24.8M
  • Ready-to-Learn Television – $27.3M
  • Regional Educational Laboratories – $70.7M
  • Re-intergration of Ex-offenders – $108.5M
  • Resource Conservation and Development Program – $50.7M
  • Rural Water Direct Loan – $77M
  • School Leadership – $29M
  • Smaller Learning Communities – $88M
  • Smithsonian Legacy Fund – $30 M
  • Southeast Crescent Regional Commission – $.25M
  • Special Olympics Education Programs – $8.1M
  • St. Elizabeth’s Testing/Remediation – $1M
  • State Energy Program – $50M
  • State Grants for Incarcerated Youth Offenders – $17.2M
  • State Health Access Grant Program – $75M
  • Statewide Data Systems – $58.3M
  • Striving Readers – $250M
  • Supported employment State grants – $28.2M
  • Teach for America – $18M
  • Teacher Quality Partnerships – $43M
  • Teaching of Traditional American History – $119M
  • Tech-Prep Education State Grants – $103M
  • Teen Pregnancy Prevention Community Grants – $110M
  • TEFAP Infrastructure Grants – $6M
  • Thurgood Marshall Legal Opportunity Scholarships – $3M
  • Tribally Controlled Postsec Vocational and Tech. Institutions – $8.2M
  • U.S. Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation – $5.75M
  • Underground Railroad Program – $2M
  • United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) – $55M
  • USGS Biol. research and monitoring (climate change funding) – $1M
  • USGS Biological carbon sequestration – $5M
  • USGS Climate change science coordination with FWS – $5M
  • USGS Climate effects network/science application – $10.5M
  • Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations – $30M
  • Watershed Rehabilitation Program – $40.1M
  • Weatherization Assistance Program – $210M
  • White House Unanticipated Needs – $1M
  • Women’s Educational Equity – $2.4M
  • Workforce Data Quality Initiative – $12.5M
  • Youthbuild – $102.5M