You are an advisor to the President tasked with cutting at least $300 billion from the budget. The president wants your recommendations to cut lines, not large categories. Submit your recommendations and your reasoning for such recommendations using these guidelines:
- Use evidence (cite sources) to support your recommendations
- Use the format provided below to present your numbers and totals followed by an explanation below the chart.
- Please note that these are not true US budget numbers, but are reasonable hypothetical numbers to help us consider the budget processes complexities.
DOMESTIC PROGRAMS AND FOREIGN AID Cut some foreign aid to African countries $17 billion
Eliminate farm subsidies $14 billion
Cut pay of civilian federal workers by 5 percent $14 billion
Reduce the overall federal workforce by 10% $12 billion
Cut aid to states by 5% $29 billion