Trump budget plan: End SNAP and deliver boxes of food

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Rather than start another thread on all the programs Trump wants to cut funding for I'll leave it here:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/13/trumps-budget-what-he-wants-eliminate-plain-english/331147002/

Quote:President Trump's budget proposal reflects his biggest priorities, putting funding behind initiatives like a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. It also calls to completely eliminate funding for initiatives that are, well, smaller priorities.


Those include after-school programs, public broadcasting and a NASA space telescope. The budget now goes to Congress, where last year even key Republican lawmakers rejected many of the same cuts.

Here's a list of 64 proposed eliminations from the budget's Major Savings and Reforms document, described as "an aggressive set of actions to redefine the proper role" of the federal government.

And it's not all cuts: Here's where the president wants to spend bigly.

Savings noted below are in comparison to 2017 funding, as listed in the document:

Department of Agriculture
Funding for land acquisition by the Forest Service: $56 million 

A program that donates to school feeding programs in foreign countries: $202 million 

Economic opportunity programs for rural America: $103 million

Grants for rural water and wastewater programs: $509 million

Rural single family housing direct loans funding: $68 million

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Department of Commerce
Economic Development Administration, which provides grants to distressed communities: $251 million

Funding for [url=https://www.nist.gov/mep]a program aiding small and mid-sized manufacturers: $125 million

Funding for several National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration programs: $273 million

Department of Education
A program establishing before- and after-school learning centers for academic improvement: $1.19 billion

Grants for improved K-12 literacy instruction: $190 million

Need-based grants to help undergraduates attend college: $733 million

Grants to prepare low-income students for college: $340 million

Payments for the education of connected children: $69 million

Programs to develop experts in foreign languages and international studies: $72 million

Grants to service families in distressed communities: $73 million

Program to help states use and analyze student data: $32 million

Funding to help colleges serve low-income students: $87 million 

A program to support well-rounded education and digital literacy for students: $400 million

A program to increase the quality of teachers and school leaders: $2 billion

Four grant programs to increase effective teaching in K-12 schools: $323 million

Technical assistance programs to improve student achievement: $104 million

Department of Energy
An office that supports energy projects: $305 million

Loan programs to support advanced technologies: $18 million

Project to dispose of surplus U.S. weapons-grade plutonium: $56 million

Department of Health and Human Services
An research agency to improve healthy systems (consolidated): $324 million

Community Services Block Grant that funds approximately 1,000 non–profits, local governments and other organizations: $715 million

Health professions training programs: $451 million

Program to assist low-income families with energy costs: $3.4 billion

Department of Homeland Security
Reimbursement funding for state and local law enforcement at airports: $45 million

Department of Housing and Urban Development
Canceling balances for a program that develops public and assisted housing: $276 million

Funding for the Community Development Block Grant program that supports 1,250 organizations in community and economic development: $3 billion

A program that helps expand the supply of affordable housing for low-income households: $950 million

Funding for grant programs to aid low-income homebuyers who contribute "sweat equity": $54 million

Department of the Interior
Funding for reclamation of abandoned coal mines: $105 million

National Park Service funding infrastructure improvement projects: $20 million

Funding to conserve significant areas outside the National Park System: $20 million

Funding for the National Wildlife Refuge Fund: $13 million

Department of Justice
Reimbursements to local governments for incarcerating "illegal criminal aliens": $210 million

Department of Labor
Program that provides jobs training for low-income Native Americans: $50 million

Program that provides job training and employment to migrant farmworkers: $82 million

Grants for occupational safety and health training programs: $11 million

Program to provide seniors with part-time community service work: $400 million

Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development
Foreign development assistance (with select programs consolidated): $2.8 billion

Appropriations for twoorganizations promoting relations in Asia: $34 million

Global Climate Change Initiative and funding to address climate change: $160 million

Emergency and development food aid: $1.6 billion

Department of Transportation 
Infrastructure funding for projects with localized benefits: $500 million

Department of the Treasury 
Funding for twoprograms developing agriculture in poor countries: $53 million

NASA
Five earth science missions: $133 million

Office of Education: $100 million

Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope: $105 million

Other agencies
A board that investigates chemical facility accidents: $2 million

An agency that funds and promotes service opportunities: $907 million

Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports PBS and NPR: $480 million

Grants to help D.C. residents afford college: $40 million

Institute of Museum and Library Services, which supports museums and libraries across the country: $208 million

Consolidating twoagencies that support development in Latin America and Africa: $44 million

A non-profit that promotes civil legal assistance for low-income people: $367 million

Funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, which promotes access to art nationwide: $121 million

Funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, which promotes the humanities nationwide: $108 million

Support for a NeighborWorks, a non-profit that funds, manages and trains local housing and community development organizations: $113

Regional development commissions in Alaska, Mississippi and New Hampshire: $41 million

Funding for an agency that supports U.S. companies in foreign infrastructure projects: $63 million

Funding of the Wilson Center, a non-partisan policy forum and research institute: $4 million