this is how we pay for the war.
- $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.