House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a broad raft of budget cuts, many that would have rural impact, that they plan to attach to legislation that would keep the government funded after March 4.
"While making these cuts is hard, we have a unique opportunity to right our fiscal ship and begin to reduce our massive deficits and debt," said Rep. Hal Rogers, left, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, whose southeastern Kentucky 5th District is the nation's most rural and one of its poorest. "We have taken a wire brush to the discretionary budget and scoured every program to find real savings that are responsible and justifiable to the American people."
Republicans released 70 of their proposed cuts, but noted those were only a "partial list." The proposal would cut $237 million from President Obama's fiscal 2011 request for Rural Development programs in the Department of Agriculture, $201 million from USDA's Farm Services Agency, $246 million from agriculture research, $46 million from USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service, $348 million from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, $72 million from the Fish and Wildlife Service and $51 million from the National Park Service. Spending on energy programs were among the cuts with energy efficiency and renewable energy programs cut by $889 million, nuclear energy cut by $169 million and fossil energy research cut by $31 million. The proposal would cut $1.6 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency. (Read more)
Rogers said today that he intends to propose more cuts, to reach the $100 billion figure "originally introduced by House Republican leaders last year in their Pledge to America. GOP leaders had later acknowledged that cutting $100 billion was unrealistic," reports Felicia Sonmez of The Washington Post.
TheCrimeReport.org, a service of Criminal Justice Journalists and the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at the City University of New York, reports, "Major cuts in federal criminal justice programs could be in store during the current federal fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30," including "$600 million for the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, $256 million in state and local law enforcement assistance, $74 million for the FBI, $69 million for the White House drug czar's office, and $52 million for law enforcement wireless communications. This is just the start of a congressional process that includes committee and floor debate in both Houses and negotiations with the White House, but it signals potentially major reductions in federal programs. Some newly elected House Republicans want to make even deeper cuts." For the committee's press release, go here.
Republicans released 70 of their proposed cuts, but noted those were only a "partial list." The proposal would cut $237 million from President Obama's fiscal 2011 request for Rural Development programs in the Department of Agriculture, $201 million from USDA's Farm Services Agency, $246 million from agriculture research, $46 million from USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service, $348 million from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, $72 million from the Fish and Wildlife Service and $51 million from the National Park Service. Spending on energy programs were among the cuts with energy efficiency and renewable energy programs cut by $889 million, nuclear energy cut by $169 million and fossil energy research cut by $31 million. The proposal would cut $1.6 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency. (Read more)
Rogers said today that he intends to propose more cuts, to reach the $100 billion figure "originally introduced by House Republican leaders last year in their Pledge to America. GOP leaders had later acknowledged that cutting $100 billion was unrealistic," reports Felicia Sonmez of The Washington Post.
TheCrimeReport.org, a service of Criminal Justice Journalists and the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at the City University of New York, reports, "Major cuts in federal criminal justice programs could be in store during the current federal fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30," including "$600 million for the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, $256 million in state and local law enforcement assistance, $74 million for the FBI, $69 million for the White House drug czar's office, and $52 million for law enforcement wireless communications. This is just the start of a congressional process that includes committee and floor debate in both Houses and negotiations with the White House, but it signals potentially major reductions in federal programs. Some newly elected House Republicans want to make even deeper cuts." For the committee's press release, go here.
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