Mr. Speaker, Start Cutting Here

Dick Armey, former member of the House, has some ideas of where the Republicans can start cutting the budget (from The Daily Caller):

2.) Dear Mr. Speaker: Dick Armey knows exactly what you can cut -- Do you remember a few news cycles ago when House Speaker John Boehner was asked what he would cut, and he said he'd have to think about it (or something)? No need! Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe of Freedom Works have done all that yucky thinking for him! "Scrapping the departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development saves $550 billion; ending farm subsidies would produce nearly $290 billion. Cutting NASA spending by 50% would save $90 billion. Repealing Davis-Bacon labor rules produces $60 billion. Ending urban mass transit grants would save $52 billion," write Kibbe and Armey. But that sounds like so much, you might be thinking right now. Armey has you covered there, too. "Some in the Republican establishment have already started complaining that this is too politically difficult. These naysayers misread today's political climate. Should they succeed in blocking change, tea party voters will hold them just as accountable as big-spending Democrats." 

Don't forget Labor and Education. Neither is necessary and in the case of Education the funding can go straight to the states without a huge federal bureaucracy sucking up dollars in-between.