Funding Reduction Quotes

Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at the very time that the tax system has become vastly more complicated. And of course America continues to grow, so there's an increasing number of tax returns coming in. The IRS responds by doing exactly what Congress expects of them. That shouldn't surprise anyone. All bureaucracies do what they are told.

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA.

Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Continuous paring of appropriations has reduced the Army virtually to the status of that of a third-rate power

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before.

Student debt in the US has exploded in the past decade. One of the reason is that the private costs of attending college have risen sharply, with public higher education funding having been cut sharply. Average public funding per student was 15 percent lower in 2015 than in 2008, and 20 percent lower than in 1990. The burden of the public funding cuts has been worsened by the stagnation of average family incomes. By 2014, this figure had nearly doubled, to 35 percent of median household income.

When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.