turns out some of those cuts are more or less accounting gimmickry, cutting federal funding the government wouldn t have spent anyway. for example, a $4.9 billion supposed cut to the justice department s crime victims fund. that money would have never been spent. the fund has other sources of revenue. there s also the $1.7 billion phantom cut of unspent 2010 census money. that said, there are some cuts that have very, very real effects. 390 million that helped low-income family pay energy bills, 2.9 billion for building high speed rail, but of all the cuts in the bill, the biggest ideological hit was to programs that identify climate change and curb its effects. keep in mind, there was a time when some republicans accepted climate change as fact. the overwhelming majority of scientific opinion in america today and in the world is that climate change is real. the fact is that it is real. in 2003 senator mccain co-sponsored a bill that would have established a cap-and-trade system. h
house appropriations will release details on the fiscal 2011 budget compromise, and it s nearly $40 billion in non-defense spending cuts, the most in our nation s history in nominal terms. turns out some of those cuts are more or less accounting gimmickry, cutting federal funding the government wouldn t have spent anyway. for example, a $4.9 billion supposed cut to the justice department s crime victims fund. that money would have never been spent. the fund has other sources of revenue.ç there s also the $1.7 billion phantom cut of unspent 2010 census money. that said, there are some cuts that have very, very real effects. 390 million that helped low-income family pay energy bills, 2.9 billion for building high speed rail, but of all the cuts in the bill, the biggest ideological hit was to programs that identify climate change and curb its effects. keep in mind, there was a time when some republicans accepted climate change as fact. the overwhelming majority of scientific opinion i
more or less accounting gimmickry, cutting federal funding the government wouldn t have spent anyway. for example, a $4.9 billion supposed cut to the justice department s crime victims fund. that money would have never been spent. the fund has other sources of revenue. there s also the $1.7 billion phantom cut of unspent 2010 census money. that said, there are some cuts that have very, very real effects. 390 million that helped low-income family pay energy bills, 2.9 billion for building high speed rail, but of all the cuts in the bill, the biggest ideological hit was to programs that identify climate change and curb its effects. keep in mind, there was a time when some republicans accepted climateç change as fact. the overwhelming majority of scientific opinion in america today and in the world is that climate change is real. the fact is that it is real. in 2003 senator mccain