Abstract
Two more groups—the Heritage Foundation and Citizens Against Government Waste—have weighed in with plans to cut the federal government. The foundation, a conservative-oriented Washington, D.C, think tank, has issued a radical proposal calling for, among other things, cutting the number of Cabinet departments from 14 to five: Defense, Health & Human Services, Justice, Treasury, and State. Agriculture would be downgraded to independent agency status. So would Interior—which would join the Environmental Protection Agency in a new Bureau of Natural Resources. Under Heritage's plan, slimming the federal government means slimming federal research. For example, in the process of transforming USDA into a Bureau of Agriculture, overall funding for a merged Agricultural Research Service and a Cooperative State Research, Education & Extension Service would drop 50% to $800 million. Neither the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) nor the Technology Administration would survive elimination of the Comme...
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