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White House Targets 121 Programs in Bid to Cut $15 Billion in Spending
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| News Date | Wednesday, May 6, 2009 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's detailed 2010 budget plan, due out Thursday, will propose modest cuts and consolidations in programs across the government. But even those trims are likely to provoke opposition from lawmakers and interest groups.
White House budget director Peter Orszag and his deputy, Rob Nabors, laid out 121 programs Mr. Obama wants eliminated or consolidated next year in a meeting with senior Democratic lawmakers Thursday. That would bring spending down by $15 billion compared with what it would have been without those cuts. The proposed trims amount to one-half of 1% of the $3.6 trillion in spending planned for 2010.
Half the cuts would come from defense, especially Pentagon weapons programs. The other half would trim or consolidate programs that have strong support among progressive activists who cheered his election.
Programs to be eliminated or consolidated will include education and housing programs that Democratic aides said will have fierce advocates among traditionally Democratic constituencies. Among the programs slated for elimination are the Education Department's Jacob K. Javitz fellowship program and Christopher Columbus grants, an option to have the Earned Income Credit included in weekly or monthly paychecks, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency's Criminal Alien Program, which identified jailed criminal aliens to ensure they are not released into the community. Eliminating the criminal alien program would save $400 million, but the proposal will face strenuous objections. |
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