Inside The Budget Deal: Vulnerable Populations Targeted, But Family Planning Saved

Included in this legislatio­n:

$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.

 
Why would Democratic voters support any of this?
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