claim: says ending the direct payment farm subsidy program "could save up to $28.4 billion over ten years that could be used to reduce the deficit."
author: earl blumenauer
evidence_1: mar 30, 2012 ... direct payments are one of the most egregious entitlements around. ... the  reducing the deficit through eliminating agriculture direct payment subsidies  act of ... (cbo) has scored the reaps act as saving $28.4 billion over 10 years.  ... will instead join another federal agriculture subsidy program, acre, ...
evidence_2: says ending the direct payment farm subsidy program "could save up to $28.4  billion over ten years that could be used to reduce the deficit." — politifact ...
evidence_3: the american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 (arra) (pub.l. 111–5),  nicknamed the recovery act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th u.s.  congress and signed into law by president barack obama in february 2009.  developed in response to the great recession, the arra's primary .... additional  debt costs would add about $350 billion or more over 10 years.
evidence_4: says ending the direct payment farm subsidy program "could save up to $28.4  billion over ten years that could be used to reduce the deficit." — politifact oregon  ...
evidence_5: obama showed no desire to use his budget to alter the basic terms of those ... “ for years, the debate in this town has raged between reducing our deficits at all  costs ... it also would have raised an additional $100 billion in revenue by moving  .... those included ending the direct-payment program for farmers and reducing ...