Funding for education in New Jersey would be slashed by nearly $30 million and drastic cuts made to health care programs and environmental protection should Congress fail to halt $85 billion in "sequestration" spending cuts scheduled to take hold March 1, the White House said Sunday.
The federal government would save $75 million by furloughing 11,000 civilian military contractors, and another $59 million by cutting funding to military bases.
The cuts would include:
- Approximately $11.7 million in funding for primary and secondary education.
- About $17 million in funds for about 210 teachers, aides, and staff who help children with disabilities.
- Head Start and Early Head Start services would be eliminated for approximately 1,300 children.
- New Jersey would lose about $4,891,000 in environmental funding, and $472,000 in grants for fish and wildlife protection.
- Approximately 11,000 civilian Department of Defense employees would be furloughed.
- Army base operation funding would be cut by about $52 million in New Jersey. Funding for Air Force operations in New Jersey would be cut by about $7 million.
- New Jersey will lose about $336,000 in Justice Assistance Grants.
- Up to 600 disadvantaged and vulnerable children could lose access to child care.
- Around 3,930 fewer children will receive vaccines.
- New Jersey will lose approximately $840,000 in funds to help upgrade its ability to respond to public health threats including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological events.New Jersey will lose about $2,330,000 in grants to help prevent and treat substance abuse, resulting in around 3100 fewer admissions to substance abuse programs. And the New Jersey State Department of Health and Senior Services will lose about $752,000 resulting in around18,800 fewer HIV tests.
- New Jersey could lose up to $187,000 in funds that provide services to victims of domestic violence, resulting in up to 700 fewer victims being served.
- Nutrition Assistance for Seniors: New Jersey would lose approximately $488,000 in funds that provide meals for seniors.
The total federal spending cuts would be about $1.2 trillion over the next nine years. Republicans have accused the president of using the impending cuts for political gain.
President Obama's plan asks for increased tax revenues to offset some of the trillion-dollar cuts.
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Speak the Kings English and tell them you need one of those teachers they are looking to lay off. ASAP.
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Wanna save a tremendous amount of $, drug test all folks who collect welfare, foodstamps, SS Disability.
...of course ...as history has shown ...all those that are then equal in their "have not" status ....get really miffed and rise up to violently overthrow the czar.
"No", is such an ugly word. May I suggest you get used to hearing it and learn to work with what you have. Best Regards, Stinger
So lets recap: State can't cut foreign aid. The Right can't cut Defense. The Left can't cut social programs. That leaves us with ???????
This is spit in the ocean $ were did the writer get this BS from? This years budget adds $15 BILLION more that last year and now they have to reduce THAT increase by $85 million. Misinformed voters will help obama's "Sky is Falling" mentality, But you at the Patch should be ashamed of yourselves for publishing this Bull!
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lol @ these nickel and dime ideological musings when we dropped a cool $2 trillion in Iraq.
Now that he has been elected, he wants his spending back, and he uses the age old rhetoric of Chicken-Little-Speak to scare the People into thinking we are on the cusp of an economic and public service tragedy. Cops won't show up for hours when you call 911, houses will burn to the ground due to cuts in fire fighters, people will die from common accidents because of degradation in EMS Services, and children will starve because school lunch programs will be cut and parents are too stupid to figure out how to feed them. Do you not even understand this is not an actual CUT in spending, it is just slowing the rate of growth. Even with sequestration we will still be spending more in 2013 than we did in 2012. It is like saying instead of spending $3.78 this year we are going to spend $3.74 which is still more then the $3.72 we spent last year. It is literally a 1% reduction in the RATE of spending growth. Are we really so fragile that the state of our national economy lies in the balance of a 1% reduction in the rate of Federal spending? If so, we have bigger problems, a.k.a. Greece anyone? Obama OWNS this fabricated crisis!!!!