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Department cuts
- Health and Human Services, the department responsible for implementing Obamacare and its proposed repeal, would face a $12.6 billion cut — a 16.2% decrease
- Environmental Protection Agency: $2.6 billion, or 31.4%
- State Department: $11 billion, or 28.7%
- Labor Department: $2.5 billion, or 20.7%
- Agriculture Department: $5 billion, or 20.7%
- US Army Corps of Engineers: $1 billion, a 16.3% cut
- Cuts National Institutes of Health spending by $5.8 billion, a nearly 20% cut. Also overhauls NIH to focus on “highest priority” efforts and eliminates the Fogarty International Center.
- Other double-digit cuts include Commerce at 15.7%; Education at 13.5%; Housing and Urban Development at 13.2%; Transportation at 12.7%, and Interior at 11.7%.
Program cuts
- Eliminates the USDA Water and Wastewater loan and grant program, a reduction of $498 million
- Cuts $250 million by zeroing out National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grants and programs that support coastal and marine management, research and education
- Reduces or eliminates 20 programs within the Department of Education, including Striving Readers, Teacher Quality Partnership and Impact Aid support payments for federal property and international education programs
- Cuts FEMA state and local grant funding by $667 million, including the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program and Homeland Security Grant Program
- Eliminates funds for Section 4 Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing
- Ceases payments to the United Nations’ climate change programs for the Green Climate Fund and precursor funds
- Scales back funding for the World Bank and other international development banks by $650 million over three years
- Cuts federal subsidies to Amtrak and eliminates support for Amtrak’s long-distance services.
- Cuts funding to the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Program so new projects will not be funded
- Shrinks the Treasury workforce by an unspecified amount
- Stops funding for the Clean Power Plan
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