Though Republicans like to think of themselves as the party that cuts waste, fraud, and abuse, Democrats, too, propose putting the ax to programs that they'd like to see go away.

Barack Obama's fiscal year 2017 budget proposal is no exception. Though it generally offers higher levels of government spending than Republicans favor, that doesn't mean Obama loves every program the government runs. In fact, he's proposing to entirely eliminate dozens of initiatives — often small grant programs — that his team has identified as superfluous or unnecessary.

The one that's likely to get the most political attention is eliminating a $10 million-a-year grant program for abstinence-only education run by the Department of Health and Human Services.

The biggest proposed elimination is the Department of Justice's $210 million State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, which reimburses state and local law enforcement agencies for costs incurred detaining immigrants.

The cut most likely to provoke backlash from liberals is probably the proposed elimination of the Environmental Protection Agency's $13 million grant program for water quality research, which sounds pretty useful in light of the situation in Flint, Michigan.

Here's the complete list of programs Obama wants to eliminate:

Area Health Education Centers, HHS

Beaches Grants Program, EPA

Broadband Loans, Agriculture

Delta Regional Authority Grants, Agriculture

Education Research Centers and Agricultural Research, HHS

Grants for Abstinence-Only Education, HHS

Economic Impact Grants, Agriculture

Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation

Health Care Services Grant Program, Agriculture

High Energy Cost Grants, Agriculture

Impact Aid, Payments for Federal Property, Education

INSPIRE grants, National Science Foundation

National Priorities Research, EPA

Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant, HHS

PRIME Technical Assistance, Small Business Administration

Rural Community Facilities, HHS

Rural Energy Savings Program, Agriculture

Rural Multifamily Housing Preservation Grants, Agriculture

State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, Justice

State Indoor Radon Grant Program, EPA

Targeted Air Shed Grants, EPA

Water and Wastewater and Community Facilities Loan Guarantees, Agriculture

Water Quality Research and Support Grants, EPA

Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations, Labor

In addition, Obama is proposing to kill a long series of small-bore research, education, and extension grants from the Department of Agriculture covering everything from alfalfa foliage to potato breeding.