Senators Look to Cut $200-Billion From Stimulus Bill
February 5, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
A bipartisan group of senators is looking to peel $200-billion from the now more than $900-billion economic-stimulus bill, with some of those cuts coming from money aimed at nonprofit groups, according to The New York Times.
Two centrist senators — Ben Nelson, a Democrat from Nebraska, and Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine — are looking to trim measures that may include $50-million for the National Endowment for the Arts, $1-billion for the National Science Foundation, $400-million for the research and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, and $400-million for climate-change research. A final Senate vote on the bill is expected late tomorrow.
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