Donny’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ is making it’s way through Congress and if passed will be put on Donny’s desk for his Magic Sharpie to do it’s thing….

For those that have no idea what will be eliminated from our government this list will give you an idea….

Economic and jobs programs

• Economic development assistance programs. This provides some $2 billion in grants to economically struggling communities.
• Economic Development Administration. $113 million.
• Job Corps. More than $1.7 billion.
• AmeriCorps (officially known as the Corporation for National and Community Service). $976 million.
• Minority Business Development Agency. $68 million.
• Community Service Employment for Older Americans. $405 million.
• The Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau.
• NASA’s Office of Science, Tech, Engineering and Math Engagement. $143 million.

Oversight

• Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. This office is a watchdog, tasked with making sure there is no discrimination in contracting. $111 million.
• Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. $14 million.

Health and living programs

• Administration for Community Living, which supports older and disabled Americans’ ability to live independently. More than $2.4 billion.
• U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. $4 million.
• The Department of Health and Human Services’ Prevention and Public Health Fund. $1.4 billion in funds planned for FY 2026.
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund. $338 million.

Assistance programs

• LIHEAP, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. More than $4.1 billion.
• Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve. $7 million.
• Refugees and asylumees. Cash, medical and other social service assistance is eliminated. No summary figure given.

Legal and labor programs

• The Department of Justice’s Community Relations Service. This division works to mediate and confront community tension. $24 million.
• Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, which mediates labor disputes. $54 million.
• Legal Services Corporation, one of the nation’s largest funders of civil legal aid. $560 million.

Media and communications

• U.S. Agency for Global Media, which includes Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe. $857 million.
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private nonprofit that distributes federal funding to public media organizations, including to NPR and PBS. This would affect local stations and programs like the PBS News Hour. $595 million.

Democracy and international development

• Inter-American Foundation, funding community development in Latin America and the Caribbean. $47 million.
• Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs (former part of USAID). $741 million.
• Woodrow Wilson Center. $15 million.
• U.S. Institute of Peace. $55 million.
• African Development Foundation. $45 million.

Arts

• National Endowment for the Arts. $207 million.
• National Endowment for the Humanities. $207 million.
• Institute of Museum and Library Services, a small federal agency that supports museums and libraries around the country. $295 million.

Regional authorities

• Delta Regional Authority. $41 million.
• Denali Commission in Alaska. $38 million.
• D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant program. $40 million.
• Northern Border Regional Commission. $46 million.
• Great Lakes Authority. $5 million.
• Southeast Crescent Regional Commission. $20 million.
• Southwest Border Regional Commission. $5 million.

Native American programs

• Indian Land Consolidation Program. $4 million.
• Indian Guaranteed Loan Program. No new loans to be guaranteed.
• Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, a higher education institute in Santa Fe. $12 million.
• Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation. $2 million.

Wildlife

• State and Tribal Wildlife Grants program. $72 million.
• Multinational Species Conservation Fund. $21 million.
• Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Fund. $5 million.
• Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund. $23 million in discretionary funding.
• Marine Mammal Commission. $5 million.

I can see where some of these programs could be unnecessary and their elimination would help the deficit but only very slightly.

Keep in mind these programs will be eliminated this does not include any deep cuts of other programs such as Medicare or Social Security….

But you will noticed that the most wasteful of agencies are exempt….especially the War Department which never suffers from cuts and is awarded money that it did not ask for on many occasions…

This is just an overview of the programs on the chopping block…..of course this could change as Congress negotiates before it goes up for a vote.

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