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The E.P.A. is among the hardest-hit agencies. The budget calls for the elimination of about 3,200 staff positions — over 20 percent of the department. It would also eliminate all funding for enactment of the Clean Power Plan, the regulations designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. It would also discontinue funding for climate change research and international climate change programs.
State and other development programs:
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Diplomacy and development would be hit hard. The prime target: the United Nations. Climate-change initiatives at the United Nations would lose all their U.S. funding. The government would cut back its regular contribution to the U.N. and would pay no more than 25 percent of the cost of U.N. peacekeeping operations.
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Israel’s $3.1 billion in annual military aid would be untouched.
Health and Human Services:
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The budget makes significant cuts to the department’s spending, by eliminating $4.2 billion in community services programs like the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. It also proposes to cut spending at the National Institutes of Health by $5.8 billion, or about 18 percent. This proposal is a nonstarter in Congress as evidenced by bipartisan support for the Cures Act, a biomedical research bill signed in December.
Commerce:
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The budget eliminates the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s grants and programs for coastal and marine management, research and education and eliminates the Minority Business Development Agency, which supports minority-owned businesses.
Interior:
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The budget would increase funding for programs that drill for oil and gas on public lands and cut funding for programs such as the National Heritage Areas and the National Wildlife Refuge Fund.
Energy:
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The budget would cut or eliminate programs to support research of breakthrough clean energy technology, including the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy and the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program.
Homeland Security:
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About $2.6 billion would be dedicated for border security technology and infrastructure, including the early stages of a wall between the United States and Mexico.
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It’s unclear exactly how all of the increases would be distributed. Some of the money would go to accelerating the fight against the Islamic State, and to pay for more warships and fighter jets.
Themes arising to me (none of which are surprising):
Scientific and environmental programs down - military, resource acquisition, and defense up
Many programs obviously should be cut. Trump will just need to do a good job of communicating how he is making these decisions. The government has expanded for so long it's due for a huge contraction.
The taxpayers win and win big and its about time. This is why we voted him in. Thank goodness.
How do we win? Increased spending, higher deficits, and all so that we can increase military spending on a military budget so large that we could probably take on the entire world and manage to win?
I mean if you have some world domination goal where we take on the world, and subjugate them...well maybe then.
We don't know until we see the revenue side. This is a one sided budget -- doesn't address the tax revenue changes that may happen.
Until then - all of this means very little.
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