Step right up and get your austerity, my friends.
A proposal in our newly Republican House suggests cutting wasteful and unnecessary spending by $60 billion. Sounds fine, right?
According to House Republicans, "wasteful and unnecessary spending" includes the USDA, Pell Grants, Head Start and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
Other diarists can no doubt extol the virtues of many of these programs better, but I'm going to focus on the latter program after the jump.
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