Obama is forcing painful cuts on Americans while sending an addition $450 million to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. What are Americans giving up to fund the Egyptians?
ShareStill, it’s all taxpayer money. The $250 million amount — which in this case includes $190 million from a total of $450 million earmarked for Egypt — theoretically could go a long way toward defraying other sequester cuts.
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But in taking a look through other federal sequester cuts, here’s what else $250 million could restore:
- U.S. Marshals Service, salaries and expenses: $59 million
- Food Safety and Inspection Service: $53 million
- FEMA, salaries and expenses: $52 million
- Federal Air Marshals: $49 million
- Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology (for Customs and Border Protection): $20 million
- September 11th Victim Compensation (general fund): $16 million
- Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal: $1 million
Here’s what $450 million could restore:
- U.S. Secret Service: $84 million
- Marshals Service, salaries and expenses: $59 million
- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: $56 million
- Food Safety and Inspection Service: $53 million
- FEMA, salaries and expenses: $52 million
- Federal Air Marshals: $49 million
- Court Security: $25 million
- Army, family housing construction: $24 million
- Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology (for Customs and Border Protection): $20 million
- September 11th Victim Compensation (general fund): $16 million
- CDC, World Trade Center Health Program Fund: $10 million
- FEMA, Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program: $2 million


