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Tax Expenditures
Total Cuts: $624 billion
Cuts Include:
Mortgage Interest Deduction
Cut: $390 billion
LIFO
Cut: $52.9...
Transportation
Total Cuts: $18.7 billion
The nation’s transportation system is broken, as the gasoline tax that each of us pays at the...
Energy
Total Cuts: $42 billion
Taxpayers have been subsidizing the same mature, polluting energy technologies for decades. Many...
NATIONAL SECURITY
Total Cuts: $95 billion
Total Achieved Savings: $7 billion
For too long, the defense budget was considered...
AGRICULTURE
Total Cut: $110 billion
Outdated and ineffective farm policies waste billions of federal funds each year, jeopardize...
Infrastructure
Total Cuts: $6 billion
For nearly two centuries, the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has been a way for lawmakers to...
General
Total Cuts: $421+ million
Cuts Include:
Shift Congressional Pensions to Defined Contribution
Overseas Private Investment...
The time has come for Congress to begin a serious discussion about how it is going to correct the current budgetary path into deeper and...
We all know that lawmakers are allowed the occasional stretching of the truth, but at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources...
As the 112th Congress begins to tackle runaway deficits, government spending cuts, and congressional earmark bans, they will undoubtedly...
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While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...
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