Another federal department of government that is unnecessary. I'm in favor of sending everything back to the states that the Constitution doesn't call for the federal government to do.
So what are the core responsibilities of the federal government, which could then be paid for with the actual taxes collected:
1. National security for defense only (zero dollar to promote wars abroad)
2. National infrastructure
3. National parks
4. Federal salaries (within reason)
5. Federal building upkeep and utility expenses
6. Federal courts
7. Federal law enforcement
8. Border and port security
9. Compensation to representative and senators (within reason)
10. Embassies and essential agencies
11. Social Security (mandatory)
12. Welfare (mandatory but carefully handled)
The federal government would never need to have budget deficits or a national debt on this basis. Giving away free money to buy votes, pork-barrel politics, unnecessary bureaucracies, inflated numbers of bureaucrats and their salaries, wasteful and extravagant expeditions, time and money wasting activities of lawmakers, are many of the causes of huge budgets.