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Political Factoid
The 2011 budget compromise:*
- $6.2 billion in Department of Defense
construction projects (mostly earmarks)
- $3 billion for high-speed
rail funds
- $3 billion for highway construction
- $1.6 billion reduction in the
EPA budget, with almost $1 billion
cut in grants for clean water and other
projects by local governments and Indian tribes.
- $1 billion cut
from programs that help prevent the
spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
- $1 billion cut from grants to states
that help pay for drinking water
infrastructure projects
- $600 million in cuts to
community health centers programs
- More than $500 million cuts from
WIC, a program that uses federal money to
subsidize the food and nutrition needs of
children from low-income families
- $414 million in cuts to grants for
state and local police departments
- $390 million in cuts to heating
assistance for those with low incomes
- $260 million cut for the National Institutes of Health,
which funds critical medical research
- $17 million cut in Family planning programs (Title X)
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At the point of gun;
At the threat of a government shutdown
by the Tea Party Republicans.
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1484,
1485,
1486,
1487,
1488,
1489,
320,
509,
561,
1362,
1274,
1386,
1394,
749
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