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Chart Breakdown of the $787 Billion Stimulus Package Bailout

The 1,073 page HR1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 bill contains hundreds of provisions.
Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.

This is how they breakdown.

Sources: House Committee on Rules, Joint Committee on Taxation, Congressional Budget Office, WSJ, OpenCongress.org

Category Description Cost ($ millions) Total (Funds appropriated) Estimated outlays (Congressional Budget Office estimates of actual cost of programs)
Farming Repairs, security improvements and rental payments at Department of Agriculture $24    
Farming Repairs and security improvements at Agricultural Research Service $176    
Farming Salaries for staff to modernize IT system at Farm Service Agency $50    
Farming Funding for watershed and flood prevention projects $290    
Farming Funding for watershed rehabilitation $50    
Farming Loans to rural homeowners $200    
Farming Guaranteed loans for rural community facility building $130    
Farming Guaranteed loans for rural businesses $150    
Farming Grants for rural waste and waste disposal $1,380    
Farming Broadband grants to rural communities $2,500    
Farming Oversight of Department of Agriculture spending $25.5    
Food Extra money for women, infants and children (WIC) special nutrition program $500    
Food Extra commodities for food banks $150    
Food Adult and child day care meals and snacks $100    
Food Crop insurance reinstatement for farmers who failed to keep up with payments, emergency loans and grants to farmers $749    
Food 13% increase in food stamp payments $19,991    
Farming & Food     $26,466 $26,431
Commerce Urban industrial core and rural economic recovery programs $150    
Commerce Extra money for Census $1,000    
Commerce Salaries and expenses for program to create broadband inventory map of the country $350    
Commerce Grants to provide wireless and broadband infrastructure to communities, including public computer centers and sustainable adoption of broadband service $4,350    
Commerce Coupons, education and consumer support for digital to analogue converter box program $650    
Commerce Oversight of Commerce Department spending $6    
Science National Institute of Standards and Technology research, including research into technology with high-growth potential and program giving technology to small and mid-size manufacturers $220    
Science NIST facilities construction and maintenance backlog $360    
Science Extra money for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facilities and research $230    
Science Extra money for NOAA satellite development including climate data sensors and modeling $600    
Science Grants to state and local law enforcement $2,225    
Justice Grants to rural law enforcement $125    
Justice Grants to law enforcement on southwest border $40    
Justice Grants for victims compensation programs $100    
Justice Grants for tribal law enforcement $225    
Justice Grants for state and local law enforcement to pursue Internet sex offenders $50    
Justice Grants to state and local law enforcement to hire extra police officers $1,000    
Justice Grants for violence against women prevention and prosecution programs $225    
Justice Costs of administering extra grant money $10    
Science NASA shuttle construction $400    
Science NASA climate research $400    
Science NASA aeronautics research $150    
Science NASA rebuilding of facilities damaged in 2008 floods $50    
Science NASA spending oversight $2    
Science National Science Foundation research $2,500    
Science Construction of new research equipment and facilities for NSF $400    
Science NSF education activities $100    
Science NSF spending oversight $2    
Commerce, Science & Justice     $15,920 $15,810
Defense Restoration and modernization of Defense facilities in U.S. and territories $3,840    
Defense Research and development of renewable energy generation for military $300    
Defense Improvements and reparations to military medical facilities in U.S. and territories $400    
Defense Department of Defense spending oversight $15    
Defense     $4,555 $4,531
Environment Flood control and water management construction, regulation and investigations $4,125    
Environment Mississippi River and tributary construction $375    
Environment Clean-up of 'brownfield' former industrial sites $100    
Environment Water reclamation and reuse projects $1,000    
Energy Home weatherization grants to low and middle-income families $5,000    
Energy Funding for Energy Star program offering tax credits to consumers purchasing new, efficient appliances $300    
Energy Advanced batteries manufacturing grants $2,000    
Energy Energy efficiency grants to states and local governments $6,300    
Energy Transport electrification grants $400    
Energy Funding for states and local governments to buy efficient alternative fuel buses and trucks $300    
Energy Research and development of renewable and efficient energy technology $2,500    
Energy Loan guarantees for standard renewables $4,000    
Energy Transmission loan guarantees $2,000    
Energy Fossil energy research and development $1,000    
Energy Research into low-emission coal plants $800    
Energy Grants for industrial carbon capture and energy efficiency improvement projects $1,520    
Energy Grants for identifying sites to store carbon dioxide emissions $50    
Energy Grants for training and research on safe storage of carbon emission\ $20    
Energy Administration of funding program $10    
Energy Physics research including high-energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy sciences $1,600    
Energy High-risk research into energy sources and energy efficiency $400    
Energy Cleanup of former nuclear sites $483    
Energy Uranium enrichment decontamination and decommissioning $390    
Energy Cleanup of former nuclear defense sites $5,127    
Energy Money for federal power marketing administrations in electric power transmission systems $6,500    
Energy Construction and repairs for federal marketing administration $10    
Energy Modernization of the electric grid $4,400    
Energy Training of electric grid workers $100    
Energy Oversight of Energy Department spending $15    
Environment & Energy     $50,825 $50,775
Government Oversight of 'making work pay tax credit' and economic recovery payments $7    
Government Treasury grants to community financial services and economic development groups $100    
Government Construction, repair and energy alterations to federal buildings and facilities $5,550    
Government Purchase of fuel efficient vehicles for federal fleet $300    
Government Oversight of General Services Administration spending $7    
Government Costs to Internal Revenue Service of providing health coverage help to workers laid off because of outsourcing overseas $80    
Government Funding for Recovery and Accountability Transparency Board $84    
Government Small Business Administration loans to businesses $651    
Government Extra money for SBA administration of loans $69    
Government Oversight of SBA spending $10    
Government     $6,858 $6,707
Homeland Security Funding for departmental site security, IT infrastructure, furniture, fixtures and other costs for HQ $200    
Homeland Security Oversight of Homeland Security spending $5    
Homeland Security Construction, repairs and equipment for ports of entry to the U.S. $420    
Homeland Security Purchase and deployment of non-intrusive inspection systems for Customs and Border Protection $100    
Homeland Security Tactical communications equipment for Customs and Border Protection $60    
Homeland Security Border security fencing and technology $100    
Homeland Security Immigrations and Customs Enforcement information-sharing technology $20    
Homeland Security Explosive detection systems for airports $1,000    
Homeland Security Funding for Coast Guard acquisitions and construction, which cannot be used for pre-acquisition surveys or construction of a new polar icebreaker $98    
Homeland Security Repairing and removing bridges hazardous to marine navigation $142    
Homeland Security Grants for security upgrades to mass transit $150    
Homeland Security Grants for security upgrades to ports $150    
Homeland Security Competitive grants to upgrade state and local fire stations $210    
Homeland Security Extra emergency food and shelter funding for homeless $100    
Homeland Security     $2,755 $2,744
Outdoors Deferred maintenance on federal lands $125    
Outdoors Priority road, bridge and trail repairs $180    
Outdoors Wildland fire management $15    
Outdoors Wildlife refuge and fish hatchery construction, deferred maintenance, road maintenance and energy efficient visitors centers $280    
Outdoors National Park Service deferred maintenance $735    
Outdoors Preservation grants for historically black colleges and universities $15    
Outdoors Repairing facilities and equipment for USGS' seismic, volcano, monitoring and stream gages $140    
Outdoors Repair of schools, detention centers, roads, bridges, housing, irrigation and dams on Indian reservations $490    
Outdoors Indian guaranteed loans $10    
Outdoors Interior spending oversight $15    
Outdoors Cleanup of hazardous and toxic waste sites $600    
Outdoors Cleanup of petroleum leaks from underground storage tanks $200    
Outdoors Loans for communities to upgrade wastewater treatment systems and drinking water infrastructure $6,400    
Outdoors Environmental Protection Agency spending oversight $20    
Outdoors Renovation of forest roads, bridges and trails, remediation of abandoned mines, removal of barriers to fish and other critical habitat $650    
Outdoors Fire hazard reduction on federal and state lands $500    
Indian reservations Indian Health Facilities construction, maintenance and equipment $347    
Indian reservations Indian Health Facilities sanitation construction $68  
Indian reservations Indian Health Services IT development and deployment $85    
Arts Smithsonian Institution $25    
Arts Grants to fund arts projects in non-profit sector $50    
Outdoors, Indian reservations, Arts     $10,950 $10,545
Labor Grants to states for adult employment and training activities $500    
Labor Grants to states for youth training, including summer jobs $1,200    
Labor Grants to states for dislocated worker employment and training activities $1,250    
Labor Grants to states with highest unemployment numbers for employment and training $200    
Labor Funds to national reserve assistance for dislocated workers $750    
Labor Training high-risk youth in construction job skills $50    
Labor Community service program for low-income over-55s $120    
Labor Funding for states' unemployment insurance and employment service agencies $400    
Labor Extra funds for department to manage enforcement of labor laws $80    
Labor Office of Job Corps construction and modernization of residential facilities for at-risk youth $250    
Labor Department of Labor spending oversight $6    
Health and services Renovation and health IT purchases for community health centers $2,000    
Health and services Training of nurses, primary care physicians, dentists to practice in underserved communities in the National Health Service Corps $500    
Health and services National Institutes of Health biomedical research $9,500    
Health and services NIH buildings and facilities repairs and renovations $500    
Health and services Funding for research comparing effectiveness of treatments funded by Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP $1,100    
Health and services Grants to states for childcare services for low-income working parents $2,000    
Health and services "Head Start" programs for low-income preschoolers $1,000    
Health and services "Early Head Start" programs for low-income infants $1,100    
Health and services Grants for community employment, food, housing and healthcare projects $1,000    
Health and services Grants to faith-based and community organizations $50    
Health and services Grants for elderly nutrition services including Meals on Wheels $100    
Health and services Extra money for Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology $2,000    
Health and services Funding for community preventative health campaigns, vaccination programs, healthcare-associated infection reduction strategies $1,000    
Health and services Funding to improve IT security at the Department of Health and Human Services $50    
Health and services Oversight of Department of Health and Human Services spending $17    
Education Funding for 'Title I' education programs for disadvantaged children. $13,000    
Education Construction funding for school districts without a local property-tax base. $100    
Education Funding for school computer and science laboratories and technology training for teachers. $650    
Education Funding for services to homeless children including meals and transportation. $70    
Education Grants for states to address teacher shortages $200    
Education Grants for special education programs $12,200    
Education Grants to states for vocational rehabilitation for disabled people $540    
Education Grants to states for independent living centers and services for elderly blind people $140    
Education Increase in Pell Grant to $5,350 in 2009 and to $5,550 in 2010, and other increases to student aid $17,114    
Education Money to increase size of colleges' student aid funds $60    
Education Money for colleges' work-study programs $200    
Education Grants for teacher training and professional development $100    
Education Funding for grants for states to create systems tracking individual student data $250    
Education Department of Education spending oversight $14    
Volunteering Extra money for AmeriCorps volunteer programs $160    
Volunteering Extra money for National Service Trust volunteer programs $40    
Volunteering Corporation for National and Community Service spending oversight $1    
Social Security Construction of new National Computer Center for Social Security Administration $500    
Social Security Extra money for Social Security Administration to process disability and retirement claim backlogs $500    
Social Security Oversight of SSA spending $2    
Labor, Health, Education, Volunteering & Social Security     $72,564 $71,271
Oversight Oversight of economic recovery package $25    
Oversight     $25 $25
Military Army child development centers $80    
Military Army "warrior transition complexes" $100    
Military Navy and Marine Corps troop housing $100    
Military Navy and Marine Corps child development centers $80    
Military Navy and Marine Corps energy conservation and alternative energy projects $100    
Military Air Force troop housing $100    
Military Air Force child development centers $80    
Military Defense hospital construction $1,330    
Military Defense energy conservation investments $120    
Military Army National Guard construction $50    
Military Air National Guard construction $50    
Military Army family housing construction and repairs $38.439    
Military Air Force family housing construction $96.561    
Military Programs for military homeowners facing mortgage problems $555    
Veterans Improvements to Veterans Affairs benefits administration, IT and claims processing $200    
Veterans Renovations and energy efficiency improvements to veterans medical facilities $1,000    
Veterans Grants for construction of state extended care facilities for veterans $150    
Veterans National Cemetery renovations and repairs $50    
Veterans Oversight of VA and military spending $1    
Military & Veterans     $4,281 $4,246
State Passport and training funding for State Department $90    
State Creation of information management backup facility for State Department, funding for participation in cybersecurity program $290    
State State Department spending oversight $2.0    
State Repair and rehabilitation of flood control levees on Rio Grande, with remainder of money for IT investments at U.S. Agency for International Development $220    
State     $602 $602
Transportation Grants for airport improvements $1,100    
Transportation Upgrades to Federal Aviation Administration power systems, air traffic control centers and towers and airport lighting, navigation and landing equipment $200    
Transportation Grants for highway improvements $29,000    
Transportation Grants to Amtrak $1,300    
Transportation Grants for capital investments in designated high-speed rail corridors $8,000    
Transportation Public transit improvements and infrastructure investments $8,400    
Transportation Grants for investments and improvements to small domestic shipyards $100    
Transportation Department of Transportation spending oversight $20    
Housing Repairs and modernization of public housing projects $4,000    
Housing Grants to rehabilitate and improve energy efficiency on Native American housing programs $510    
Housing Grants for community and economic development projects $1,000    
Housing Grants for short-term help with rent and housing relocation for homeless families $1,500    
Housing Energy efficiency retrogrades to low-income housing, including new insulation, windows and furnaces $2,250    
Housing Funds for communities to buy and rehabilitate foreclosed and vacant properties $2,000    
Housing Funds for building and rehabilitating low-income housing using green technology $2,250    
Housing Grants for removing lead-based paint in low-income housing $100    
Housing Department of Housing and Urban Development spending oversight $15    
Housing Increase in government-sponsored mortgage provider conforming loan limits $50    
Transportation & Housing     $61,795 $61,051
Aid Aid to states to balance education budgets, prevent cutbacks and modernize schools $40,600    
Aid Aid to states in form of bonus grants for meeting key performance measures in education $5,000    
Aid Aid to states for public safety and critical services $8,000    
Aid     $53,600 $53,600
Aid Tax breaks for low-income housing investors $143    
Aid     $143 $143
  SPENDING TOTAL   $311,339 $308,481
Individual tax cuts $400 payroll tax credit for workers earning up to $75,000; married couples filing jointly get $800 for income up to $150,000 $116,199    
Individual tax cuts Increase in earned income tax credit for working families with more than three children $4,663    
Individual tax cuts Increased eligibility for refundable child tax credit, with all income over $3000 qualifying $14,830    
Individual tax cuts Tax credit of up to $2500 for tuition and college expenses $13,907    
Individual tax cuts Computers and computer technology will qualify for inclusion in tax-advantaged savings plans $6    
Individual tax cuts A tax credit for first-time homebuyers increases from $7500 to $8000, and will not have to be repaid $6,638    
Individual tax cuts Taxpayers earning less than $125,000 can deduct sales and excise taxes paid on new cars $1,684    
Individual tax cuts $2400 of unemployment benefits will not be subject to federal income tax $4,740    
Individual tax cuts Middle-income taxpayers get an exemption from the alternative minimum tax of $46,700 for an individual and $70,950 for a married couple $69,759    
Individual tax cuts     $232,426  
Business tax cuts Businesses will be able to more quickly deduct the cost of investments in plant and equipment from their taxable income $5,074    
Business tax cuts Businesses will be allowed to recover alternative minimum tax and research and development credits faster $805    
Business tax cuts Small businesses will be allowed to write-off up to $250,000 of capital expenditures in the year of acquisition $41    
Business tax cuts Unprofitable small businesses with annual receipts of less than $15 million can recoup taxes paid in the past five years, up from two $947    
Business tax cuts Companies will be allowed to defer taxes for five years on several transactions aimed at restructuring balance sheets, and repay the taxes over the following five years $1,622    
Business tax cuts Businesses will be able to claim a tax credit for 40% of the first $6000 of wages paid to unemployed veterans or 16-25-year-olds hired $231    
Business tax cuts Small businesses will be able to exclude 75% of the gain from the sale of some stock held more than five years $829    
Business tax cuts Taxable corporations converting into S corporations will have a 7-year holding period for assets subject to built-in gains tax, from 10 years $415    
Business tax cuts Restoring tougher rules on taxpayers claiming losses incurred by a company before they bought it is projected to raise money -$6,977    
Business tax cuts Some companies restructuring may not be subject to those tougher rules $3,163    
Business tax cuts     $6,150  
Manufacturing tax cuts Manufacturing facilities producing "intangible property" such as patents can qualify for industrial development bonds $203    
Manufacturing tax cuts Facilities making advanced energy property may be able to claim a new 30% investment tax credit $1,647    
Manufacturing tax cuts     $1,850  
Economy tax cuts $10 billion "new markets tax credits" will be available for 2008 and 2009 $815    
Economy tax cuts $25 billion of bonds for investment in economic recovery zones will be created $5,371    
Economy tax cuts Tribal governments will have fewer requirements on their ability to issue tax-exempt bonds $315    
Economy tax cuts     $6,501  
Infrastructure tax cuts High-speed rail facilities for trains capable of going at 150 miles per hour will qualify for facility bonds $288    
Infrastructure tax cuts Rules affecting state and local government bonds will be changed to improve marketability $3,789    
Infrastructure tax cuts A 3% withholding on payments to government contractors will be delayed for one year $291    
Infrastructure tax cuts $22 billion in new tax credit bonds for construction or repair of public schools $9,877    
Infrastructure tax cuts $2.8 billion of bonds for schools working with businesses $1,045    
Infrastructure tax cuts 35% credit to bondholders for infrastructure bonds, 35% refundable credit to issuers of bonds $4,348    
Infrastructure tax cuts     $19,638  
Energy tax cuts Extending by three years the placed-in-service date for renewable energy investments $13,143    
Energy tax cuts Investment credits in lieu of production credits for renewable energy purchases $285    
Energy tax cuts Removal of cap on tax credits for purchase of small wind systems $604    
Energy tax cuts $1.6 billion extra allocation of clean energy bonds $578    
Energy tax cuts $2.4 billion extra qualified energy conservation bonds $803    
Energy tax cuts 30% cap on tax credit for energy efficiency purchases by homeowners, up to $1500 per residence $2,034    
Energy tax cuts Credit for purchase of residential solar, geothermal, wind and fuel cells $268    
Energy tax cuts 50% tax credit for purchase of alternative refueling stations $54    
Energy tax cuts Tax credit for plug-in electric vehicle conversion $2,002    
Energy tax cuts Equalization of parking and transit tax-free employer benefits at $230 for 2009 $192    
Energy tax cuts     $19,963  
Energy tax cuts Grants to states for low-income housing projects in lieu of credits $5    
  Grants to states for energy projects in lieu of credits $69    
Other tax cuts Customs and Border Protection will not demand that U.S. lumber, steel and other companies repay money they were given from Canadian and Mexican import duties $90    
Energy & Other tax cuts     $164  
Individual aid One-time payment of $250 for retirees, disabled people, SSI recipients, railroad retirees and disabled veterans $14,225    
Individual aid One-time refundable tax credit of $250 for some government retirees not eligible for social security benefits $218    
Individual aid     $14,443  
  TAX CUTS TOTAL   $301,135 $288,339
Individual aid Two-year extension of program providing income support and training benefits for workers who lose their jobs because of outsourcing overseas $1,600    
Individual aid Extension of jobless benefits for up to 33 weeks $26,960    
Individual aid Increase in weekly unemployment benefits by $25 $8,800    
Individual aid Grants for states modernizing unemployment compensation coverage among low-wage, part-time and other workers $2,975    
Individual aid Waiver on interest payments and accrual in interest on loans held by state unemployment trust funds $1,100    
Individual aid Extension of unemployment compensation by 13 weeks for railroad workers $21    
Individual aid Aid to states to administer extended benefits $138    
Individual aid Aid to states for temporary assistance to needy families payments (TANF) $2,418    
Individual aid Extra aid to states with high population group or increased poverty for TANF payments $319    
Individual aid Extra funding for child support enforcement $1,000    
Individual aid Costs of providing health coverage help to workers laid off because of outsourcing overseas $457    
Individual aid     $45,788 $58,143
Individual aid 65% subsidy for laid-off workers to continue paying premiums for former employer's health plan for nine months $24,749    
Individual aid     $24,749 $24,677
Health care Incentive payments to hospitals and physicians who computerize medical-records systems $17,559    
Health care     $17,559 $17,559
Health care Federal aid to states for Medicaid spending $90,044    
Health care     $90,044 $90,042
  AID TOTAL   $178,140 $190,421
  TOTAL   $790,614 $787,241