Office of Tribal Relations -$1M
Office of Advocacy and Outreach -$1.7M
Hazardous Materials Management -$.5.1M
Conservation Loans, Direct Subsidy -$1M
Conservation Loans, Guaranteed Subsidy -$.3M
Indian Highly Fractionated Land Loan Program -$.8M
Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations -$30M
Watershed Rehabilitation Program -$40.1M
Resource Conservation and Development Program -$50.7M
Multi-family Rural Housing, Revitalization Program -$25M
Multi-family Rural Housing, Revitalization Program
Preservation Loans -$1.8M
Rural Water Direct Loan -$77M
High Energy Cost Grant Program -$17.5M
Broadband Direct Loans -$28.9M
TEFAP Infrastructure Grants -$6M
Cops Hiring -$298M
NTIA Public Telecom Facilities Construction -$20M
NIST Construction Grants -$20M
DOJ Weed and Seed Fund -$20M
Emergency Steel Loan Guarantees -$48M
Weatherization Assistance Program -$210M
State Energy Program -$50M
Northern Border Regional Commission -$1.5M
Southeast Crescent Regional Commission -$.25M
Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation -$37.5M
Election Assistance Grants -$75M
White House Unanticipated Needs -$1M
ONDCP Youth Media Campaign -$45M
ONDCP Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center -$5M
ONDCP Performance Measures -$.25M
Federal Payments to DC:
Forensics Lab -$15M
Chief Financial Officer -$1.85M
Reconnecting Disconnected Youth -$4M
BLM Ecosystem Assessments -$4.5 M
BLM Seed Preservation (climate change funding) -$3 M
BLM, Challenge Cost Share -$9.5 M
FWS, Challenge Cost Share -6.5M
FWS Partners: private lands (climate change funding) -$6 M
FWS National Wildlife Refuge System (climate change funding) -$12M
FWS National Fish Habitat Action Plan (climate change funding) -$2 M
NPS Climate Change Monitoring System $3 M
NPS Climate Change response office -$1.5 M
FWS Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund -$83 M
FWS North American Wetlands Conservation Fund -$48 M
FWS State and Tribal Wildlife Grants -$90 M
NPS Park Partnership grants -$15 M
NPS Preserve America grants -$4.6 M
NPS Save America’s Treasures grants -$25 M
NPS Statutory or Contractual Aid -$5.85 M
NPS LWCF State Assistance -$40M
USGS Climate effects network/science application -$10.5 M
USGS Biological carbon sequestration -$5 M
USGS Climate change science coordination with FWS -$5 M
USGS Biol. research and monitoring (climate change funding) -$1 M
EPA local climate change grants -$10 M
EPA targeted air-shed grants -$20 M
EPA cap and trade technical assistance – $5 M
FS, State and Private Forestry (Forest Legacy) -$70 M
Smithsonian Legacy Fund -$30 M
Eisenhower Memorial Commission -$19 M
Corporation for National and Community Service – $1B
Corporation for Public Broadcasting -$86M
Youthbuild -$102.5M
Green Jobs Innovation Fund -$40M
Career Pathways Innovation Fund -$125M
Re-intergration of Ex-offenders -$108.5M
Workforce Data Quality Initiative -$12.5M
State Health Access Grant Program -$75M
Family Planning -$317.5M
Patient Navigator -$5M
Congenital Disabilities -$.5M
National All-Schedules Prescription Monitoring -$2M
St. Elizabeth’s Testing/Remediation -$1M
Eliminate no-year flu funding -$276M
Medical Countermeasures Dispensing -$10M
Even Start -$66.5M
Striving Readers -$250M
Literacy through School Libraries -$19M
High School Graduation Initiative -$50M
Mathematics and Science Partnerships -$180.5M
Educational Technology State Grants -$100M
Foreign Language Assistance -$27M
Education for Native Hawaiians -$34M
Alaska Native Education Equity -$33.3M
National Writing Project -$25.7M
Teaching of Traditional American History -$119M
School Leadership -$29M
Advanced Credentialing -$10.7M
Teach for America -$18M
Fund for the Improvement of Education (FIE) -$261M
Excellence in Economic Education -$1.5M
Mental Health Integration -$6M
Arts in Education -$40M
Exchanges with Historic Whaling Partners -$8.8M
Reading is Fundamental -$24.8M
Women’s Educational Equity -$2.4M
Ready-to-Learn Television -$27.3M
Close Up Fellowships -$2M
Alcohol Abuse Reduction -$32.7M
Elementary and Secondary School Counseling -$55M
Carol M. White Physical Education Program -$79M
Civic Education -$35M
Special Olympics Education Programs -$8.1M
Projects with industry -$19.2M
Supported employment State grants -$28.2M
Tech-Prep Education State Grants -$103M
State Grants for Incarcerated Youth Offenders -$17.2M
Smaller Learning Communities -$88M
LEAP program -$64M
Fund for the Improvement of Postsec. Ed. (FIPSE) -$159.4M
Legal Assistance Loan Repayment Program -$5M
Tribally Controlled Postsec Vocational and Tech. Institutions -$8.2M
Byrd Honors Scholarships -$42M
Teacher Quality Partnerships -$43M
Programs for BA Degrees in STEM and Critical Foreign Languages -$1.1M
Programs for MA Degrees in STEM and Critical Foreign Languages -$1.1M
Demonstration in Disabilities / Higher Education -$6.8M
Underground Railroad Program -$2M
Thurgood Marshall Legal Opportunity Scholarships -$3M
Regional Educational Laboratories -$70.7M
Statewide Data Systems -$58.3M
Economic Development Fund for Community Services Block Grant – $36 M
Mentoring Children of Prisoners – $49 M
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Community Grants – $110 M
Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants – $757.5 M
Contribution to the Clean Technology Fund -$300M
Contribution to the Strategic Climate Fund -$75M
Asian Development Fund -$105M
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) -$55M
Compex Crisis Fund -$50M
U.S. Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation -$5.75M
Buying Power Maintenance Account -$8.5M
Global Crop Diversity Trust -$10M
International Fund for Ireland -$17M
FRA High Speed Rail -$5B
National Infrastructure Investments -$600M
FHWA Surface Transportation Priorities -$293M
FTA Energy Efficiency Grants -$75M
FRA Railroad Safety Technology Program – $50M
FRA Rail Line Relocation Program -$34.5M
MARAD Assistance to Small Shipyards -$15M
FTA WMATA Grants -$150M
HUD HOPE VI -$200M
HUD Native Hawaiian Housing Grants -$13M
HUD Housing Counseling Assistance -$87.5M
HUD Energy Innovation Fund -$50M
HUD Brownfields -$17.5M
My gosh, that's a lot of government programs! Maybe you can enlighten us as to why they're all so important.
ReplyDeleteFor instance, why are there a separate programs for Native Hawaiians (e.g. Education for Native Hawaiians; and HUD Native Hawaiian Housing Grants)? Wouldn't it be a lot more cost effective to not have separate bureaucracies for just one ethnic group?
$1 million for the Office of Tribal Relations? Can't the tribes work out their relations on their own? After all, they're sovereign nations. Sounds pretty paternalistic to me.
And what's this $1.85M for "Chief Financial Officer"? Chief Financial Officer of what?
After 20 years in the Army, I'm always intrigued by acronyms (especially ones I don't know). I did a little research on "HUD HOPE VI." I'm still not sure what it stands for, but I discovered that "[s]ome critics have said that local authorities use the program as a legal means to evict poor residents in favor of more affluent residents in a process of gentrification."
(Here's the source.)
Ted, are you saying that a government program that displaces poor people to make room for the wealthy is a good thing?
Maybe you could go down the list one by one and explain why each of these programs (149 of them, by my count) are so indispensible.
The truth is that everything proposed for cuts amounts to nothing in terms of the overall budget. Whether these programs are good or not isn't the point.
ReplyDeleteThe absolutely ONLY way to reduce the budget in any meaningful way is to slash entitlements; social security, medicare, and public service retirements (think military) as well as deep cuts in military spending.
Interestingly, if we slash things like military spending, we increase joblessness since the military and the industries that support it are so huge. Tell me how that's all going to work out!
I'm not willing to see programs that help the least of us when we're unwilling to go after the real money.
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ReplyDeleteWhile I tend to agree with you, I need to point out that cutting social security (or even abolishing it) would not help to balance the budget - since it is funded out of the ss trust fund and not general revenues.
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ReplyDeleteAs a military retiree who could start drawing Social Security as early as March 2012, I totally agree with you.
I'd gladly take a cut in my military retirement, and I'm already planning on working as long as possible so I won't be a drain on SS. (And Ted, even though social security is "off budget," somebody still has to pay for it.)
But in order for all this to work, everyone has to bite the bullet - no exceptions. Maybe the "least among us" can't afford to sacrifice as much, but they should still sacrifice what they can - by staying in school until they graduate; by going back to school if they've already dropped out; by not having kids until they get married; by staying married once they do have kids; by developing a good work ethic: arriving on time, working hard while you're there, and showing up even when you don't feel like it. We're all in this mess together.
Those of us who are healthy need to stay that way. Those who aren't (especially younger people who can still turn their life around) need to change their lifestyle so they won't be a burden. That means little (if any) junk food, NO illicit drugs, alcohol in moderation (if at all) - none, if there's a history of alcoholism in your family, NO tobacco.
Lifestyle changes can't forestall all sickness; despite my best intentions, I still contracted prostate cancer and suffered a heart attack. But I'm trying to do everything I can to stack the deck in my favor: exercise, keeping my weight down, healthy diet -- I could afford to get some more sleep, though.
Which is a good segue for me to end this comment and start getting ready for bed!
I say double the amount of prgrams here and really go at it. I'm Irish and I don't see why we need the International Fund for Ireland -$17M. And as for the Asian Development Fund -$105M, don't we contribute to that when we visit Walmart? What's the Compex (Complex) Crisis Fund -$50M? Or the Buying Power Maintenance Account -$8.5M. Google Ready-to-Learn Television -$27.3M and see what you get. Kids watching TV so the Teacher doesen't have to teach I guess. What's this? Advanced Credentialing -$10.7M? Does anybody know what any of these programs do? OUT WITH THEM ALL!
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