Commerce, Labor, Agriculture, HHS, HUD, Transportation, Energy, Education. Homeland Security is very abusive and at the very least needs to be cut back severely, if not outright eliminated. Veterans Affairs can be folded into Defense. That would be a very good start on actually cutting government.
Make it 10.
My #1 target for the cut list is EPA!!!!
They spun out the Department of Veteran’s Affair so that it could be saved from any military budget cuts.
With the military facing $1 trillion in cuts over the next decade (the $400 billion first agreed upon 3 months ago and the upcoming $600 billion from the failed supercommittee), guess what would be a very tempting target for the Pentagon to cut if the VA fell under the military budget?
The budget of the Department of Education is about $80 Billion, and there are about 50 million K-12 kids in the U.S. That is about $1600 per student. The tuition for my children’s Catholic School is $5025 per year. So the Government spends about 31% of that for each child in the U.S.