Sentences with phrase «us infrastructure program»

But you won't find officials there talking about any issues they have with the infrastructure program with reporters, on or off the record.

In fact, the bigger threat to the rebound could be the slow implementation of Trudeau's and Morneau's infrastructure program.

China's next targets: rail, roads, ports The powerful chairman of China's $ US200 billion ($ 307 billion) sovereign wealth fund, Lou Jiwei, has met Treasurer Wayne Swan and West Australian Premier Colin Barnett to clarify rules on foreign investment in resources and discuss whether China could help finance the Rudd government's infrastructure program.

In October, that prime minister was replaced by one who campaigned on borrowing money to finance an infrastructure program.

The Philippine government passed a tax bill to raise money for President Rodrigo Duterte's $ 170 billion «Build, Build, Build» infrastructure program.

Sure, they're great for consumers who want to download movies but that's not really a justification for a large scale infrastructure program.

Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastructure program.

Trump met with around 20 executives on Tuesday to ramp up support for his $ 1 trillion infrastructure program.

And the other main source of economic growth over the next couple of years will come from government spending, led by the federal government's infrastructure program.

The Liberals sold the first of their infrastructure program by saying that the money, $ 11.3 billion of which was committed on a cash basis between April 2016 and this Saturday, would grow the economy by 0.2 per cent in the first 12 - months and then by 0.4 per cent in the ensuing 12 months.

Parliamentary budget officer Jean - Denis Frechette's office found 10,052 projects with a combined cost to federal coffers of $ 7.2 billion have been approved for funding across 32 departments, agencies and Crown corporations since 2016, when the Liberals unveiled the first phase of their infrastructure program,.

Scandals enveloping U.S. President Donald Trump have left Republican lawmakers and lobbyists increasingly gloomy about the prospects for passing sweeping tax cuts, a rollback of Obamacare and an ambitious infrastructure program.

Next time you folks decide to spend $ 800 billion to stimulate the economy, do so on a national infrastructure program to bury all the power, phone, and cable lines.

«If the government wheeled out a significant medium - term infrastructure program, I don't think I'd have a big problem with it — they can borrow very cheaply and there's a pretty good case to be made that there's lots of demand for infrastructure.»

Stimulus help is coming by way of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's infrastructure program, which some analysts offer as a reason to avoid an interest - rate cut, or at least delay one.

Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least, government personnel costs.

He joined the firm in 2011 and has made significant contributions to the success of First Reserve's energy infrastructure program.

The budget dedicates $ 11.2 billion to cities and provinces for affordable housing over 10 years as part of the second wave of the government's infrastructure program, $ 5 billion of which is to encourage housing providers to pool their resources with private partners to pay for new projects.

No incremental funds for 2013 - 14 are required for any of infrastructure programs.

These were the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund, the Building Canada Communities Component Top - up, the Recreational Infrastructure Canada program and the Knowledge Infrastructure Program.

However, Trump's decision to appoint somebody with whom he has long maintained a financial relationship — his second such appointment, after having named fellow billionaire real - estate developer and business partner Steven Roth to head his infrastructure program — suggests a continued willingness to blur the lines between his endeavors as a businessman and his duties as president, all while contributing to the perception that the president is willing to reward those who have done business with him in the past.

For example, the various infrastructure programs administered by the Office of Infrastructure Canada lapsed over $ 3 billion in 2010 - 12 and close to $ 2 billion in 2011 - 12.

His team also has purchased nonperforming loans at a discount in Portugal and partnered with local experts in Mexico to fund government infrastructure programs.

But the main ingredient in our forecast is the federal infrastructure program, which is well under way but not yet evident in the economic indicators we are tracking.

In our current situation, the federal government may try to speed up its planned infrastructure program.

Reports suggest the government is considering several measures, ranging from speeding up the cash disbursements under the already - planned infrastructure program to incentives for energy - saving retrofits of buildings.

Adding to this development, the U.S. has announced a proposed Border Adjustment Tax, and voiced a threat to introduce new Buy American restrictions that would see only American - made products used in federal - funded infrastructure programs.

[fn.3] As a result, this taxpayer previously taking the standard deduction but now itemizing could donate $ 10,000 to the state infrastructure program and save at least $ 11,120 — $ 10,000 in state taxes and $ 1,120 in federal.

Last year, Schulich launched a Master in Real Estate and Infrastructure program to complement its long - standing MBA specialization in Real Estate and Infrastructure.

Donald Trump had just been elected, and he promised tax reform and infrastructure programs that would spur the economy like few times in history.

I was looking for the Trump inflation, I'm watching very closely to see if now Trump proceeds down that path of being able to get a bipartisan deal on an infrastructure program of significance for the U.S..

I will say this: when you have a debt - financed infrastructure program or tax cut, there will be pockets within the economy that will benefit, but the aggregate economic performance will not benefit and so fiscal policy, as I see it, is not really going to be helpful.

For example, the various infrastructure programs administrated by the Office of Infrastructure Canada lapsed nearly $ 3 billion in 2010 - 11, nearly $ 1.8 billion in 2011 - 12 and nearly $ 1.6 billion in 2012 - 13.

If you believe in the dignity of labor, it makes sense to support an infrastructure program that allows more people to practice the habits of industry.

The Environmental Water Knowledge and Research project is funded under the Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure Program.

The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources oversees the Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure Program (SRWUIP) which is a national program investing in rural water use, management and efficiency, including improved water knowledge and market reform, and water purchase for the environment.

We have conserved more land, enacted a more progressive tax code, and launched the most ambitious infrastructure program in the country rebuilding LaGuardia and JFK airports, Penn Station and the new Mario Cuomo bridge.

The program includes $ 1 million for purchasing and removing 13 structures damaged by flooding, $ 900,000 to implement infrastructure programs that can hold and slow flood waters and $ 182,000 to create a design for flood plain restoration in the area was impacted.

«We could have the most massive infrastructure program we've ever seen in New York State,» said Collins.

Higgins says the infrastructure program has to come through his Ways and Means Committee and he will be pushing hard for the overall effort.

«I think this is one form of an infrastructure program.

Despite a multibillion - dollar bid - rigging scheme implicating some of his closest associates, Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to shift the focus to an ambitious infrastructure program — a $ 1.6 billion plan to transform the historic Farley Post Office into a world - class transportation hub that would entail revamping Penn Station, which he called the «train version» of LaGuardia Airport.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Former Erie County Executive and independent gubernatorial candidate Joel Giambra announced his marijuana infrastructure program on Wednesday afternoon.

There are also new programs proposed, including a new Life Sciences Laboratory ($ 600 million) and a High Tech Innovation and Economic Development Infrastructure Program ($ 300 million).

At the same time, the governor is pushing an ambitious five - year, $ 29 billion statewide infrastructure program.

The New York Works Task Force is touring the state explaining how it's trying to better spend taxpayer dollars on infrastructure programs, and looking for suggestions on how to do it.

The National Republican Congressional Committee will announce today a second round of candidates who have become «Contenders» in its four - level fundraising and infrastructure program for open - seat and challenger candidates.

And finally, he told the legislatures to «think big» when planning for the future in terms of education, transportation and infrastructure programs.

The Highway Superintendents Association, he explained, has been lobbying the state government to make more money available through its older infrastructure program, the Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement Program, or CHIPS.

The governor's appearance in Manhattan followed his Wednesday trip to Washington, which apparently left him with an unanswered question for President Donald Trump: Where's the $ 1 trillion infrastructure program?