List of Official Cuts from the Stimulus

[General Zod]

Ala CNN

(CNN) -- A coalition of Democrats and some Republicans reached a compromise that trimmed billions in spending from an earlier version of the Senate economic stimulus bill.

CNN obtained, from a Democratic leadership aide, a list of some programs that have been cut, either entirely or partially:

Partially cut:

• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)

• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)

• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)

• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)

• $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)

• $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)

• $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)

Fully eliminated

• $55 million for historic preservation

• $122 million for Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters

• $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization

• $50 million for Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service

• $65 million for watershed rehabilitation

• $100 million for distance learning

• $98 million for school nutrition

• $50 million for aquaculture

• $2 billion for broadband

• $100 million for National Institute of Standards and Technology

• $50 million for detention trustee

• $25 million for Marshalls Construction

• $300 million for federal prisons

• $300 million for BYRNE Formula grant program

• $140 million for BYRNE Competitive grant program

• $10 million state and local law enforcement

• $50 million for NASA

• $50 million for aeronautics

• $50 million for exploration

• $50 million for Cross Agency Support

• $200 million for National Science Foundation

• $100 million for science

• $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees

• $4.5 billion for General Services Administration

• $89 million General Services Administration operations

• $50 million from Department of Homeland Security

• $200 million Transportation Security Administration

• $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use

• $25 million for Fish and Wildlife

• $55 million for historic preservation

• $20 million for working capital fund

• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement

• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management

• $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start

• $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity

• $2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants

• $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)

• $16 billion for school construction

• $3.5 billion for higher education construction

• $1.25 billion for project based rental

• $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization

• $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing

• $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state

Some of these cuts I could agree with, but I'm a little amazed at some of the things that got chopped. State and Local law enforcement got removed entirely, aren't they always in dire need of funds to keep officers? NASA gets the shaft again, no surprise there but annoying. The $2billion investment in broadband would have been fantastic and likely created a number of related jobs, so that one's a big pet peeve. Anyone else annoyed at specific items that went to the chopping block on this?

[Invictus ChiKen]

The distance learning program if it's the one I think it is pisses me off. I know a lot of people for whom distance learning is the only way to get a degree or GED and those kind of investments tend to come back in the form of taxing on the graduate that now has a better job.

[Count Chocula]

Sorry, I didn't do the math. Does this mean the Senate's back down to the original ~$750 billion 'stimulus?'

[Admiral Drason]

I'd like to see an item by item list of whats still being funded. It seems like lots of good things that I'm actually qualified to work on were cut.

[Questor]

The education/school construction are odd cuts, because those would actually create jobs. Actually, a lot of those would create jobs.

[The Romulan Republic]

The education/school construction are odd cuts, because those would actually create jobs. Actually, a lot of those would create jobs.

I think my Mom theorized that the GOP is getting good stuff cut from the bill to make it fail, so they can then blame Obama. Of course, they could just be opposing any spending regardless of merit simply because its (non-military) spending.

[SirNitram]

The education/school construction are odd cuts, because those would actually create jobs. Actually, a lot of those would create jobs.

Yes, they would. If you removed the tax cuts which failed spectacularly when over a trillion of them were enacted in 2001's milder recession, and restored funding to this, there's even more good stuff to add.

This presumes a sane person.

The Republican view is the same they're institutes and think-tanks have been publically posting for a while. It Must Fail. The human cost, the economic cost, the national cost, all are unimportant. What is important is that if it passes and creates a solid benefit, it will banish the GOP in much the same way the New Deal did.

[ray245]

The education/school construction are odd cuts, because those would actually create jobs. Actually, a lot of those would create jobs.

Yes, they would. If you removed the tax cuts which failed spectacularly when over a trillion of them were enacted in 2001's milder recession, and restored funding to this, there's even more good stuff to add.

This presumes a sane person.

The Republican view is the same they're institutes and think-tanks have been publically posting for a while. It Must Fail. The human cost, the economic cost, the national cost, all are unimportant. What is important is that if it passes and creates a solid benefit, it will banish the GOP in much the same way the New Deal did.

Which is why I fail to understand, how did those idiots maintain such a strong grip in US politics for so long. There are no concerned about the welfare of thier citizen, only their party.

[The Romulan Republic]

When you'd rather your country collapsed than you be proven wrong, its time to go. The problem is that a one party system is hardly ideal.

I've reached the conclusion that the US has no viable political future short of civil war or dictatorship if the GOP does not collapse. We need a third party.

[Uraniun235]

It's not nearly so dire as dictatorship - there's still the primary elections which determine what candidate gets to run as the party's candidate, and incumbents have lost primaries before. I imagine that after not too long, the Democratic Party would split and we'd have two parties again.

[KrauserKrauser]

I'd like to see an item by item list of whats still being funded. It seems like lots of good things that I'm actually qualified to work on were cut.

Agreed, even that small list of cuts leaves hundreds of billions in spending un-accounted for. Have they provided a detailed breakdown of what this massive spending bill will actually do with these new cuts?