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Weeks after capitulating to Republicans on tax cuts for America's super-rich and corporations, adding hundreds of billions to the deficit, he now wants funding reductions for:
-- the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP); it provides billions to states to help families heat or cool homes; in FY 2010, 8.3 million households needed it, especially to avoid freezing in winter;
-- Pell Grants, providing millions of dollars for higher education, what Kris Wright, University of Minnesota director of student finance, calls the "granddaddy of all (student) financial aid programs," crucial to help low-income students attend school;
-- 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; and
-- other non-defense discretionary spending, cutting vital programs to sustain militarism, favoritism, waste, fraud, and other rewards for Washington's usual special interests, benefitting greatly at the public trough.
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