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62 agencies and programs
FreetoHead 45 wants to eliminate
-FreetoHead 45's proposed budget takes a cleaver to domestic programs, with many agencies taking percentage spending cuts in the double digits.
But for dozens of smaller agencies and programs, the cut is 100%.
Community development block grants.
The Weatherization Assistance Program.
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
The National Endowment for the Arts.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Also proposed for elimination are lesser-known bureaucracies like the ;
McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Program,
Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program
Inter-American Foundation.
Not every program would disappear overnight.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which now receives $485 million a year,
might still get some federal funding in 2018,
FreetoHead 45's budget says hundreds of programs and agencies would be eliminated — with more than 50 in the Environmental Protection Agency.
But his first budget proposal identified 62 specifically.
The list:
Department of Agriculture
Water and Wastewater loan and grant program ($498 million):
"Rural communities served by federal investments in rural water infrastructure .
McGovern-Dole International Food for Education program ($202 million):
Department of Commerce
Economic Development Administration ($221 million): President Obama's 2017 budget touted the agency as " the only federal government agency
with a mission and programs focused exclusively on economic development."
Minority Business Development Agency ($32 million):
Department of Education
Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants program ($2.4 billion): 21st Century Community Learning Centers program ($1.2 billion):
The formula grants to states support before- and after-school and summer programs
Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant program ($732 million):
This financial aid program, known as SEOG, help give up to $4,000 a year to college students based on financial need.
(( If they are too poor to go to college -
let them get a student loan -
and give the banks a chance to make some money off them -
or just not go - college-after all is for the rich ... ))
Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program ($190 million):
The grants are targeted toward students with disabilities or limited English proficiency.
Teacher Quality Partnership ($43 million):
A teacher training and recruitment grant program.
Impact Aid Support Payments for Federal Property ($67 million):
(( this one might be OK ... ))
International Education programs ($7 million):
This line item funds a variety of exchange programs,
Department of Energy
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy ($382 million): This alternative energy research program - funding projects that the private sector would not.
Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program:
This loan fund finances projects that combat global warming.
(( why bother - It's all Chinese propaganda ...??? ))
Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program:
Helps finance fuel-efficient vehicle research.
Weatherization Assistance Program ($121 million):
The program helps homeowners make their homes more energy efficient with grants of up to $6,500.
State Energy Program ($28.2 million):
Gives grants to states to help them work on energy efficiency and anti-climate change programs.
Department of Health and Human Services
Health professions and nursing training programs ($403 million): (( an option would be to provide scholarships and student loans in in exchange for service
In areas with a nursing shortage. ))
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program ($3.4 billion):
LIHEAP helps the elderly and low-income people pay their heating and power bills.
(( If they are too poor to pay for heat - let them freeze - right ...
that's the republican way ... ))
Community Services Block Grants ($715 million):
CSBG is an anti-poverty grant program .
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Community Development Block Grant program ($3 billion): CDBG has been a bread-and-butter funding source for local communities for 42 years,
Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing ($35 million):
Department of the Interior
Abandoned Mine Land grants ($160 million):
(( Let the rich make the money from the mines -
Let the poor people pay for the mess the rich people make -
that's the republican way ... ))
National Heritage Areas ($20 million):
State-and-federal partnerships to preserve natural, historic, scenic, and cultural resources.
National Wildlife Refuge fund ($480 million):
Maintains the Fish and Wildlife Service's 563 wildlife refuges throughout the country.
Department of Justice
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program ($210 million): Reimburses states for the cost of incarcerating criminal immigrants.
Department of Labor
Senior Community Service Employment Program ($434 million): SCSEP is a job training program for low-income people 55 and older .
(( If they want job training - they should not be poor ...
that's the republican way ... ))
Occupational Safety and Health Administration training grants ($11 million)
Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development
The Global Climate Change Initiative ($1.3 billion) To support the Paris climate agreement.
Includes the ;
Green Climate Fund ($250 million),
Strategic Climate Fund ($60 million)
Clean Technology Fund ($171 million).
(( It's all a Chinese Plot - Just like pretending the world is round ... ))
Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund ($70 million):
To "provide humanitarian assistance for unexpected and urgent refugee and migration needs worldwide,"
(( If they needed assistance - they should not have been refugees - right ? ))
The East-West Center ($16 million):
Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West,
the Honolulu-based nonprofit has a mission of strengthening relations among Pacific Rim countries.
(( Let the Chinese do it - it is their century after all ... ))
Department of Transportation
The Essential Air Service program ($175 million)Provides federal subsidies for commercial air service at rural airports.
Rural communities could be served by other modes of transportation.
(( If you want to get to rural communities -
you can just use your private jet ... ))
Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grants ($499 million):
Department of the Treasury
Community Development Financial Institutions grants ($210 million): 23-year-old program to support community banks and credit unions .
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Geographic watershed programs ($427 million) Great Lakes Restoration Initiative ($40 million)
Chesapeake Bay Restoration Initiative ($14 million):
Fifty other EPA programs ($347 million)
Energy Star,
Targeted Airshed Grants,
Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program,
Infrastructure assistance to Alaska Native Villages and the Mexico border.
Idiot's budget takes a sledgehammer to the EPA
The proposal by the White House would slash the EPA's budget by 31 percent —
— from its current level of $8.1 billion to $5.7 billion.
It would cut 3,200 positions, more than 20 percent of the agency's current workforce .
The proposed budget, would discontinue funding for the Clean Power Plan —
the effort to combat climate change by regulating carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
It would sharply reduce money for the Superfund program -
It also would eliminate “more than 50 EPA programs.” Among them:
the Energy Star program, to improve energy efficiency and save consumers money;
infrastructure assistance to Alaska Native villages and the Mexico border;
a grant program that helps cities and states combat air pollution;
an office that focuses on environmental justice issues.
Funding for the massive Chesapeake Bay cleanup project, which receives $73 million each year, would be cut to zero.
Similar cleanup programs in the Great Lakes — a massive undertaking would suffer the same fate ...
The agency’s new ANTI-leader, former Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt,
has been a key critic of the efforts to fight climate change and reduce fossil-fuel-related pollution.
Cynthia Giles, who headed the EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance said - that enforcement staff has already been reduced 20 percent over the past eight years, bringing it to its lowest level since the enforcement office was created in 1995.
“[More cuts] won’t just drastically reduce EPA enforcement, it will bring it to a halt,” “Not only will the staff be a shadow of its former self, the inspectors, lawyers and criminal agents who would be left would be unable to do their jobs, because these cuts would zero out the already small amount of funds used to do inspections, monitor pollution and file cases.”
John O’Grady, a career EPA employee who heads a national council of EPA unions, said the agency “is already on a starvation diet, with a bare-bones budget and staffing level” . *
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Office of Education ($115 million),
(( if people want to get educated -
they can get their rich parents to pay for it ... ))
The planet Donald Trump doesn't want you to see
NASA has a little program with a big view of Earth, but Russian-Chinese-Joint Venture President Idiot 45 wants to shut it down. If a new budget outline released by the FreetoHead administration Thursday goes through, it will cancel funding for the instruments on the DSCOVR spacecraft that face our planet from 1 million miles away. It's a relatively small budget cut -- though it's unclear how much would be saved -- in a proposal to trim billions of dollars from many agencies, but the Idiot's's desire to cancel this one specific part of a mission speaks volumes.
NASA's Epic instrument on DSCOVR beams back a full view of the sunlit side of the Earth every day.
The photos are made publicly available through a NASA-run website, and it's a great place for any journalist or member of the public to go for a daily view of our home planet.
These images allow climate scientists to get a good look at what the atmosphere is doing on any given day
Epic's photos are also simply beautiful. It changes a person's perspective to see the Earth from 1 million miles away, without borders or any human-made objects visible. Everyone you've ever cared for is right there in that image.
Canceling this program doesn't make a lot of sense from an operational point of view.
The mission is already in space, so a major part of the money allotted for the camera and other Earth science instruments has already been spent. Plus, it's not like the administration is planning to cancel the entire mission of the satellite -- it will still monitor the environment around it, keeping tabs on the sun's activity.
This proposal is like a dig at former REAL Vice President Al Gore .
REAL Vice President Gore is the person who lobbied heavily for this mission, and specifically the camera showing humanity a full view of Earth every day.
This may be some kind of personal beef between Gore and Trump --
even if it isn't, the proposal reveals the idiot's true intent when it comes to programs focused on our home planet.
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Republicans in Congress have long-lobbied for an end to NASA's Earth science programs, and imaginary president idiot's outline delivers on that.
Along with the imaging program for DSCOVR, the administration is also calling for the cancellation of PACE, OCO-3 and CLARREO Pathfinder, all missions that observe our planet.
(( none of the longterm future missions may get off the ground if climate change puts NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida - underwater
in the coming decades. ))
Plus, who knows where the next generation of space explorers will come from without NASA's office of education, which would get totally dismantled .
Independent agencies and commissions
African Development Foundation ($26 million):
An independent foreign aid agency focusing on economic development in Africa.
Appalachian Regional Commission ($119 million):
A 52-year-old agency focused on economic growth in 420 counties.
(( All those coal miners can pay for their own economic growth ... ))
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board ($11 million):
Investigates chemical accidents.
FreetoHead's proposal to scrap Chemical Safety Board
draws criticism
The Idiot's proposal to do away with the federal agency that investigates chemical accidents drew sharp criticism from environmental, labor and safety advocates, who said that eliminating the watchdog would put American lives at risk.
Christine Todd Whitman, the former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head, on Thursday called the proposal to get rid of Chemical Safety Board (CSB) and cut EPA funding short-sighted, saying both have long been an industry target for advocating greater public information on chemicals.
"If you want to put the American people in danger this is the way to do it,"
she said of the idiot's proposal to cut the CSB's funding entirely from the 2018 federal budget. "The chemical industry has fought back from the beginning."
The CSB investigates major chemicals accidents to search for their causes and makes recommendations that could prevent a recurrence. It has no regulatory power, but is influential because its recommendations are often adopted by industry, labor, government officials, the EPA and Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The CSB, which has an annual budget of about $12 million, defended its work, saying its work has broadly improved safety. "As this process moves forward, we hope that the important mission of this agency will be preserved," the agency said in a statement.
Petroleum and refining industry groups, Exxon Mobil Corp, BP plc and Tesoro Corp did not respond or declined to comment directly on the potential phase out.
(( when the government is run by these groups - what would you expect ... ))
Michael Wright, director of health, safety and environment at the United Steelworkers union, said the CSB's recommendations generally have been welcome by labor and industry.
The board's reviews of major accidents have proved significant. Its probes have led to industry standards on worker fatigue, greater reporting of hazardous chemicals to first responders, and have prompted companies to keep workers not directly involved in projects out of harm's way.
In California, many of the board’s safety recommendations have been drafted into law.
"This is one of the best bargains in Washington," said the USW's Wright.
"If it has prevented even one accident, it has saved far more money than its budget over its entire history."
Its probe of the fatal Deepwater Horizon rig explosion was controversial because of its two-year length and extensive need for outside help. The work led to new standards for safety in the offshore oil industry and in well equipment.
Some recommendations have not been yet been implemented.
After a fatal 2013 explosion in West, Texas, that killed 12 first responders the CSB proposed facilities that store large amounts of fertilizer be covered by emergency planning laws that give first responders more information. That remains open.
Beth Rosenberg, a former CSB board member and now an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, said the CSB "does excellent work; other countries admire this agency."
She said opponents
"don't know what they're doing here or how useful this board is."
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Corporation for National and Community Service ($771 million):
Best known for its Americorps community service program.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting ($485 million):
Supports public television and radio stations,
including the PBS television network and,
indirectly, National Public Radio.
Idiot 45's Budget Proposes Killing All Funding for
PBS, NPR and National Endowment for the Arts
Russia - Chinese Joint Venture Subcontractor Pretend President Cheetohead 45
made good on a long-time conservative goal in his first proposed budget - targeting
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
and
the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
for complete elimination.
’Idiot 45’s budget would zero out the $445 million budget for
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,
a relatively small source of funding for programming and broadcast operations on public TV stations and NPR radio stations nationwide, *
The budget would also eliminate the budgets for both national endowments, which stood at $148 million each in 2016,
as well as $230 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services,
which supports libraries and museums.
Additional cuts would affect two tourist mainstays in Washington, D.C.,
the Smithsonian Institution
and
the National Gallery of Art.
’Combined, the four arts organizations account for less than 0.02 percent of the U.S. government’s $4.6 trillion budget.
(( That's 2 Cents of each $ 100.00 Dollars the government steals ... ))
In 2016, the NEA allocated $47 million to 50 states and five jurisdictions, funding that that helped to leverage $368 million from state governments to support arts organizations via more than 24,000 grants, according to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.
In 2015, funding for the NEA was less than one-third
of what the U.S. budget allocated for military bands.
’Republicans have long put the NEA and the CPB in their budget crosshairs.
In 1981, Worthless Criminal Reagan attempted to shut down the NEA,
but backed down -
Reagan did, however, make major cuts to the NEA’s budget .
CheetoHead's staff suggested that the incoming idiot would consider appointing
Sylvester Stallone to head the NEA,
Stallone later declined.
(( Would have been the smartest - and most articulate one there ...))
The NEA and the NEH — which supports
museums,
archives,
libraries,
universities —
were created in 1965 by Lyndon B. Johnson.
“An advanced civilization must not limit its efforts to science and technology alone, but must give full value and support to the other great branches of scholarly and cultural activity in order to achieve a better understanding of the past, a better analysis of the present, and a better view of the future,”
the congressional act.
Defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is unlikely to cripple either PBS or NPR.
NPR received less than 1 percent of its revenue from the CPB,
PBS less than 7 percent,
according to data from 2014 *
The CPB has relatively low overhead and paid out 99.3 percent of its $445 million appropriation in 2014 in grants, more than 90 percent of which went not to the national networks but to local affiliates in less populated cities .
(( Maybe Idiot 45 thinks that these people are to stupid to watch PBS anyway ... ))
Delta Regional Authority ($45 million):
Economic development agency for the eight-state Mississippi Delta region.
Denali Commission ($14 million):
A state and federal economic development agency for Alaska.
Institute of Museum and Library Services ($231 million):
Provides money to the nation's 123,000 libraries and 35,000 museums.
Inter-American Foundation ($23 million):
Promotes "citizen-led grassroots development" in Latin America and the Caribbean.
U.S. Trade and Development Agency ($66 million):
Promotes U.S. exports in energy, transportation, and telecommunications.
Legal Services Corp. ($366 million):
Helps provide free civil legal advice to poor people.
(( Poor people do not need any civil legal advise ,
Let the government and the rich run amuck and trample the poor peoples'
broken lives and bodies ...
that's the republican way ... ))
National Endowment for the Arts ($152 million):
National Endowment for the Humanities ($155 million):
Supports scholarship into literature and culture.
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp. ($175 million):
Supports local affordable housing programs.
Northern Border Regional Commission ($7 million):
Regional economic development - parts of Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont.
Overseas Private Investment Corp.($63 million):
Encourages U.S. private investment in the developing world.
(( Let the Chinese do it - it is their century after all ... ))
U.S. Institute of Peace ($40 million):
U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness ($4 million):
An independent agency coordinating the federal government's efforts to reduce homelessness.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ($11 million):
A program to provide scholarships and fellowships in social sciences and humanities.
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