Sentences with phrase «house over spending cuts»

The dispute between Democratic President Barack Obama and the Republican - led House over spending cuts and tax increases led to automatic cuts that started Friday.

Not exact matches

While reducing federal spending during an economic slowdown was not the President's preference, he recognized the political realities and undertook a series of negotiations with the Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner, aimed at achieving a compromise plan to reduce the deficit over time through a combination of spending cuts and revenue increases.

Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, a formidable bloc in the House, have said they will not support the budget until they see the tax reform plan and want the resolution to contain more cuts to federal spending than the $ 203 billion over a decade that it already contains.

As Tuesday's hearing was underway, House Republicans were locked in their own budget battle over how to cut spending.

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

Washington (CNN)- White House officials led by Vice President Joe Biden met for the first time Thursday with House and Senate leaders in both parties to begin negotiations on major differences over spending cuts.

After House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said any extra spending for disaster aid should be offset by cuts elsewhere, Democrats have pounced on the statement (for an argument why Cantor's statement isn't crazy, Dave Weigel has an interesting take over at Slate).

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne introduces a raft of cuts to welfare spending in yesterday's emergency budget, including the capping of housing allowances and freezing of child benefits, in a bid to save # 11bn over the next four years.

Indeed, yesterday's Budget cuts to Housing Benefit are a sideshow to the big issue in housing, which is that spending has shifted dramatically towards supporting individuals with housing costs - rather than investing in bricks and mortar over the last twenty or so years since rent controls were abolished and local authorities were made to stop building council Housing Benefit are a sideshow to the big issue in housing, which is that spending has shifted dramatically towards supporting individuals with housing costs - rather than investing in bricks and mortar over the last twenty or so years since rent controls were abolished and local authorities were made to stop building council housing, which is that spending has shifted dramatically towards supporting individuals with housing costs - rather than investing in bricks and mortar over the last twenty or so years since rent controls were abolished and local authorities were made to stop building council housing costs - rather than investing in bricks and mortar over the last twenty or so years since rent controls were abolished and local authorities were made to stop building council houses.

It points to five million low - paid workers, a housing market where home ownership rates have halved over the last 20 years, public spending cuts and a brutal welfare squeeze as evidence that the gulf between the well - off and the underprivileged will become permanent.

Earlier this year, it broke with the House leadership over what the group saw as insignificant spending cuts in the debt ceiling deal, urging Speaker John Boehner to negotiate a Balanced Budget Amendment.

Is the budget plan, which seeks deep cuts in federal spending over the next several years, that was approved by the Republican House so overwhelming to Americans they would oppose candidates who support it?

Two weeks ago, after the House of Commons vote on the budget, when Labour MPs joined with a number of Tory backbenchers to demand cuts in EU spending over the next seven years, slightly more voters (42 %) wanted the EU budget cut rather than maintained or increased (39 %).

The House budget plan would slash spending by $ 5.4 trillion over 10 years, including more than $ 4 trillion in cuts to mandatory spending like Medicaid and Medicare, while ramping up defense spending.

Trump wants to cut about $ 1.7 trillion in federal spending over 10 years through deep spending cuts to entitlement programs, according to a budget preview provided by the White House.

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Under a promise by House Republicans to cut projected federal spending by some $ 5 trillion over the next decade, House appropriators have $ 91 billion less to work with this year than their counterparts in the Democrat - controlled Senate.

The atmospheric research center — facing chronic budget shortfalls as Congress and the White House have sparred over spending — has been shedding positions for years and now this modest effort to link climate science to human needs has been cut (saving $ 500,000 out of an $ 88 million annual science budget)[budget figure UPDATED from $ 120 million; $ 88 million is for science].

The housing bust, the overhang of household debt and ill - timed cuts in public spending have created a situation in which nobody wants to spend; and because your spending is my income and my spending is your income, this leads to a depressed economy over all.

The article notes this is seen by the White House as a way to sustain energy science and technology development even as the automatic spending cuts kick in under what's being called sequestration — a euphemism for forced cuts in all programs because of political deadlock over changes in taxes and entitlements.