The "hit" list

                                        

These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting.

                                             

         Annual Savings

• Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy.                 $445 million
• America 's Treasures Program.                                           $25 million
• International Fund for Ireland .                                           $17 million
• Legal Services Corporation.                                               $420 million
• National Endowment for the Arts.                                     $167.5 million
• National Endowment for the Humanities.                         $167.5 million
• Hope VI Program..                                                              $250 million
• Amtrak Subsidies.                                                           $1,565 Billion 
• Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274
• (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon,
• eliminates 68 at a savings of                                           $1.3 Billion
• U.S. Trade Development Agency.                                       $55 million
• Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy.                                      $20 million
• Cut in half funds for congressional printing and binding.$47 million
• John C. Stennis Center Subsidy.                                       $430,000
• Community Development Fund.  (ACORN?)                        $4.5 Billion 
• Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid.                           $24 million  
• Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half.                                     $7.5 Billion
• Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%.                             $600 million  
• Essential Air Service.                                                         $150 million
• Technology Innovation Program.                                       $70 million
• Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program. $125 million
• Dept of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization.     $530 million
• Beach Replenishment.                                                        $95 million
• New Starts Transit.                                                               $2 Billion
• Exchange Programs for Alaska , Natives Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusett .                                                                                   $9 million
• Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants.                             $2.5 Billion 
• Title X Family Planning.                                                   $318 million
• Appalachian Regional Commission.                                  $76 million
• Economic Development Administration. (?)                     $293 million
• Programs under the National & Community Services Act.$1.15 Billion 
• Applied Research at Department of Energy.                $1.27 Billion
• FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership.                               $200 million
• Energy Star Program.                                                        $52 million
• Economic Assistance to Egypt .                                      $250 million
• U.S. Agency for International Development.                  $1.39 Billion
• General Assistance to District of Columbia .                 $210 million
• Subsidy for Washington Metro Area Transit Auth.       $150 million
• Presidential Campaign Fund.  $775 million savings over ten years.
• No funding for federal office space acquisition.          $864 million
• End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
• Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act.                            More than $1 Billion
• IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services
• it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the
• Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget.
•                                                           $1.8 Billion savings over ten years.
• Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees. $1 Billion total                                        WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees.
•                                                                        $1.2 Billion savings over ten years.
• Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of.
•                                                                                            $15 billion.
• Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.
• Eliminate Mohair Subsidies.                                              $1 million
• Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.                                                     $12.5 million
• Eliminate Market Access Program.                              $200 million
• USDA Sugar Program.                                                     $14 million
• Subsidy to Organisation for Econ Co-operation and Develop. (OECD).
•                                                                                           $93 million
• Eliminate the National Organic Certif. Cost-Share Program.
•                                                                                        $56.2 million
• Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs.  $900 million
• Ready to Learn TV Program.                                           $27 million
• HUD Ph.D. Program.
• Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
• TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

My question is, what THE HELL is all this doing in the budget in the first place?