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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...
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Outdated and ineffective farm policies waste billions of federal funds each year, jeopardize...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...
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...
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While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...
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