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- Implement the “Penny Plan,” which each year would reduce net spending by 1 percent of the previous year’s total. Over 10 years this would reduce spending by almost $1 trillion. Defense and public safety spending would be exempt.
- Order every federal government department head to “provide a list of wasteful spending projects that we can eliminate in my first 100 days.” Review each agency and then decrease the size of the “bloated government,” making it “leaner and more responsive to the public.”
- Stop spending money on space exploration until the United States can fix its potholes. Encourage private space-exploration companies to expand.
- Stop so-called zombie spending, in which the government funds programs that have had their congressional authorization lapse.
- Spur the spending of $1 trillion in public and private dollars on infrastructure projects over 10 years. Invest in “transportation, clean water, a modern and reliable electricity grid, telecommunications, security infrastructure, and other pressing domestic infrastructure needs” without adding to the national debt.
- Negotiate rates for these projects that are one-third of what the United States is currently paying. “Cut wasteful spending on boondoggles” by streamlining the permit and approval processes.
- Allow families to redirect their share of education spending to a private, charter, magnet, religious or homeschool. Provide $20 billion in federal funding to establish block grants that states could use to help children in low-income families enroll at private and charter schools.