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Latest Promises

Create a "government efficiency commission" to find fraud, improper payments

Cut off federal funding for NPR

Provide record-breaking military funding

Challenge limits on the president’s ability to cut federal spending

Cut the federal budget every year

Repeal Hyde Amendment

Restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood

Help state and local governments prevent budget shortfalls

End the defense sequester

Make no cuts to Social Security

Make no cuts to Medicaid

Add additional federal investment of $20 billion toward School Choice

Adopt the penny plan

Dramatically scale back the U.S. Education Department

Eliminate wasteful spending in every department

Administer Medicaid through block grants

Balance the federal budget 'fairly quickly'

Cut another $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion in spending

Fund a major expansion of AmeriCorps

Include humanitarian international missions in long-term budgeting

Modernize ships and invest more in small vessels

Support wetlands protection

Double U.S. spending on foreign aid to $50 billion a year by 2012

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