The Huffington post is running a breakdown of the cuts in the deal struck between the White House and congressional republicans.
# $600 million in cuts to community health centers.
# $414 million in cuts to grants for state and local police departments.
# A whopping $1.6 billion cut in the Environmental Protection Agency's budget, of which nearly $1 billion comes from grants for clean water and other projects by local governments and Indian tribes.
# Cuts to homeland security programs for the first time ever, though much of the agency's two percent decrease stems from a $786 million cut in first responder grants to state and local governments.
# A $7 million cut to the Bureau of Public Debt, which accounts for and provides reports on the debt.
# A $1 billion cut to HIV and disease-prevention funds.
# A $3 billion cut to agriculture programs, the biggest portion of which comes from the Women Infants and Children fund, which loses $504 million.
# A $390 million cut to low-income heating assistance; Community Development Funds are cut by $942 million.
# Contributions to the United Nations and other international institutions are cut by $377 million.
# $45 million pulled from nuclear nonproliferation funds.
# A $650 million cut to federal highway investments.
# A rider tucked in by lawmakers from Western states that allows states to remove wolves from the endangered species list.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Yeah that's a mess. So we're cutting WIC because um hunger is good for infant growth? Oh and lets not forget taking an axe to the EPA. After all who really needs clean drinking water (newsflash: Radioactive Iodine from Fukushimahas been found at 3000% of safe drinking water levels in the rain in Boston and 5000% in Ceder Rapids). I get the feeling that this deal might be harder to pass than most people think.