White House Details Programs to Be Cut

[G_j]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5605497,00.html

White House Details Programs to Be Cut

Thursday February 9, 2006 4:31 PM


By ANDREW TAYLOR

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House Thursday sent lawmakers details of the 141 programs that President Bush wants to eliminate or significantly cut to save taxpayers almost $15 billion.

Bush wants to build upon the success he had last year in killing 89 programs costing $6.5 billion, but most of this year's proposals made the grade with lawmakers last year and likely will again. Of 91 programs slated to get killed altogether, to save $7.3 billion, only 16 are new proposals.

The programs slated for elimination are congressional favorites funded through annual appropriations bills. Programs on the chopping block include $3.5 billion from the Department of Education, including grants for safe and drug free schools, vocational education grants and arcane programs such as the ``Exchanges With Historic Whaling and Trading Partners'' program.

Another 50 programs are slated for large cuts but not outright elimination, for savings of $7.4 billion. They include cuts of $394 million from Amtrak subsidies, $694 million from Department of Homeland Security grants and training programs and an almost 25 percent cut from construction funding for Indian Schools.

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[blue in ohio]

1. True meaning of no child left behind....

They will all be marching soon. Sad that the parents of the children that are attending public schools and hope to get loans to go to college frequently vote for these a-holes.

[bif]

2. Cut $15B from social programs, then spend $400B on defense?

Makes sense to me.

[catmandu57]

4. It's going to be more than 400 billion

They're not including the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan in the budget, they'll be covered by supplementals later.

[grytpype]

7. And hundreds of billions for tax cuts for the rich.

The Bushists don't hide what their priorities are, that's for sure.

[undergroundpanther]

3. Why don't they

cut the TAX cuts for the rich.Goddamn I HATE these greedy thugs.

I hope Bush is impeached found guilty of treason and hung as it says in the constitution.I hope his whole family and all of his"associates" are bankrupted paying back this country,I hope every last bush supporter is shamed. I hope every bush funder and abettor are unable to ever open a business again(due to criminal background)or have anything anymore I hope all of these evil rich monsters suffer so bad they all kill themselves in despair living short empty imprisoned poverty stricken lives as the pariahs and sociopaths nobody trusts,wants or respects. I hope if they walk the street they are jeered,chased away, spat upon and hated.. I hope nobody cares about them anymore,mocks their pain,denies their wants,ignores their ideas,rejects their new scams.ridicules their beliefs,and because they cannot hook another human being into their bullshit again,I hope they all die in a gutter..HATED..Ias it should be with all moral degenerate sociopath parasites.

[dweller]

8. thanks for that

for putting to words what i feel and just can't bring into words ...

dp

[brooklynite]

5. And who's responsible???

$694 million from Department of Homeland Security grants

DHS was formed under the Bush Administration and staffed under the Bush Administration. Will someone be taking responsibility for the failiings of the training program?

[central scrutinizer]

6. link to White House site listing program performance

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/expectmore/

Help catapault the propaganda by checking on the performance of your favorite program.

[HuffleClaw]

9. 141 programs ??!!! EEEEEEP

oh, bloody hell. ok, i can understand cutting the ``Exchanges With Historic Whaling and Trading Partners'' program, whatever the hell it might be, but what are the other 140 about?

"$694 million from Department of Homeland Security grants"
"grants for safe and drug free schools"

The White House said the programs on its ambitious list are those ``not getting results or not fulfilling essential priorities.''

hahhaah. sooooo, that means the 'war on terror' and the 'war on drugs' isn't succeeding?