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- HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and other disease prevention programs;
- WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) grants to states for supplemental foods, healthcare, and nutrition education for low-income families;
- Head Start, providing comprehensive education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income families with children;
- the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (targeted earlier with more coming), providing food stamps for poor households;
- community development block grants for housing, overall reducing HUD's budget by $1.1 billion;
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) first-responder funding;
- energy efficiency and renewable energy programs;
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) clean/safe water and other projects;
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) medical research;
- the National Park Service;
- vital infrastructure and transportation needs; and
- other non-defense discretionary spending.
Planned new cuts will sustain Wall Street, militarism, favoritism, waste, fraud, and other rewards for Washington's usual special interests They benefit at the public trough.
Everyone else gets to eat cake. They're on their own sink or swim. Obama calls it "shared sacrifice." Workers sacrifice to let business and super-rich elites share.
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