The House budget also targets savings in the federal auto fleet, noting that the Simpson-Bowles Commission recommended cutting it by 20 percent, excluding DoD and USPS.
It says that in 2010, the federal government had a worldwide inventory of more than 662,000 vehicles and spent $4.6 billion on its fleet. In addition, the 2009 stimulus bill provided $300 million to ‘‘green the federal fleet” by purchasing 17,205 vehicles.
Similarly, the budget says that the federal government owns 650 million acres of land—almost 30 percent of the land area of the United States. It calls for "examining federal land to see where cost savings can be achieved by selling unneeded acreage in the open market— excluding National Parks, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges, and wild and scenic rivers. When the federal government holds lands that do not serve a public purpose, it takes these lands and the potential private-sector activity out of the federal, state, and local tax base.