Sentences with phrase «while federal cuts»
While federal cuts to education would cause all districts to either reduce services or compensate for deficits with state or local dollars, Trump's proposed budget would have the most severe impact on districts with high concentrations of poverty and other challenges.
https://www.americanprogress.org/ Not exact matches
While Republican leaders argued it would, every major independent analysis of the bill, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, showed that it would grow the federal debt over the next 10 years even when accounting for that increased growth.
And while public dissatisfaction with the legislation has been focused on the notion that the Republican tax cuts are deeply skewed toward the wealthiest Americans and the corporations they run, Barkan, who has spent years galvanizing support for a more diverse and inclusive Federal Reserve, wants to remind Americans this legislation also includes cuts to their healthcare.
The federal government will begin cutting the age pension in three years, reduce disability and other welfare payments immediately, and slash back family tax payments, while holding out the prospect of income tax cuts within five years, Tony Abbott has pledged.
The Minnesota Senate is preparing to vote on its plan to cut income tax rates while matching the federal tax overhaul.
It's still likely to result in a bill that scales back federal support for insurance coverage and overhauls Medicaid while cutting taxes for the health care industry — but if any plan can pass the Senate, it's likely to look something like that.
The Minnesota Senate has passed its plan to sync Minnesota's taxes with the federal government while modestly cutting income tax rates.
When the financial crisis hit the markets in 2008, the Federal Reserve embarked ultra easy monetary policy, which included cutting short - term interest rates to effectively 0 % while suppressing longer term interest rates through the purchases of long term Treasury debt and mortgage - backed securities — a program informally referred to as quantitative easing.
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.
«Specs added short gold exposure, while cutting long positioning, as they bet the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) was determined to taper as soon as the economy allowed — December taper probabilities increased slightly,» stated TD Securities.
About 39 % of respondents said fiscal policy, which has included tax increases and automatic federal spending cuts, was «too restrictive,» while 21 % thought it was «too stimulative.»
-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.
While federal and provincial governments will continue to play an important role investing in infrastructure, they simply do not have the resources to meet the demand — pegged at somewhere in the neighbourhood of $ 500 - billion — without a large increase in tax revenues or drastic cuts to social programs.
In «Getting Real: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2017,» authors William B. P. Robson, Alexandre Laurin and Rosalie Wyonch show how the federal government can cut the deficit while boosting economic growth and opportunities for CanFederal Budget for 2017,» authors William B. P. Robson, Alexandre Laurin and Rosalie Wyonch show how the federal government can cut the deficit while boosting economic growth and opportunities for Canfederal government can cut the deficit while boosting economic growth and opportunities for Canadians.
What Boehner wants to do, minimally, is to reduce the Federal component for these programs while simultaneously providing tax cuts for the wealthy and certain industries.
He heard government leaders talk about balancing the budget by cutting back on the food stamp program, even while they rescued a struggling aircraft corporation with massive federal aid.
While Trump's federal tax cut is causing headaches for some New Yorkers, Cuomo and regulators at the state Public Service Commission are working to ensure that utility customers in the state are able to reap some of the benefits as soon as possible.
The decision came the same day a federal judge made public an order that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal maintain Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood centers for 14 more days while the court considers plans to cut it off permanently.
While Collins says he has House leadership support for cutting federal reimbursements to state Medicaid funding derived from counties in the sales tax, the Senate side is still debating how states would be impacted.
Now, Kenneth Raske of the Greater New York Hospital Association is pulling hard the other way: «New York's financially struggling hospitals were living austerely within the state's Medicaid spending cap well before the recent avalanche of federal health care cuts,» Raske told the Daily News» Kenneth Lovett, «while other sectors, such as education, have not been held to theirs.»
-- Spending $ 1.5 trillion on federal tax cuts and squeezing the overall federal discretionary budget while also threatening key programs that the MTA is relying on to fund upgrades and expansions.
While voters are nearly evenly divided between the two candidates on most issues, Hayworth is viewed as stronger on taxes and the federal budget deficit in a district that favors repealing health care and retaining the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.
Cuomo said the stopgap budget would give legislators time to resolve their differences while postponing the decision until after the release of the federal budget, which is expected to contain spending cuts that could drastically impact state finances.
«While the federal corporate tax cuts are expected to incentivize businesses to make capital investments and create more jobs, New Yorkers don't see the benefits of the new tax reform,» Ondrich said.
Unless Chris Collins is a liar, then he voted to cut his own taxes substantially while burdening the rest of us with a ballooning federal deficit.
But the Medicare Advantage cuts represent only a small piece of the problem, and Medicaid reforms, while helpful, won't make any difference unless the federal government decided to take action.
President Donald Trump has vowed to cut off all funding to «sanctuary cities» like New York that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities, while GOP leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have long sought to slash federal spending across the board.
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE While Mayor Bill de Blasio is proposing to increase spending by roughly $ 2 billion in the city fiscal year that begins on July 1, cuts in federal and state support for the city may force the mayor to curtail those plans.
So Weprin has been put on the defensive about Obama's Middle East policy, while Turner appears to have managed to avoid the drawbacks of his party association, and has largely been taken at his word when he says he would buck the House Republicans on an overhaul of entitlement programs, even though he has pushed, at times, for 30 - 35 percent cuts in federal spending.
It will slightly cut overall spending for the second year in a row while limiting growth in state spending — sans federal funds — to just under 2 %, Skelos said.
You might want to change the example: Education in the USA is a state matter, while the question seems to be triggered by the USA federal tax cuts.
Trump's first budget for the federal government is a blueprint that would make deep cuts in the Environmental Protection Agency and other domestic programs while significantly increasing spending on the military.
Saying that the federal tax law gives health insurers a 40 % cut on their corporate taxes while transferring health care costs to the state, the budget would impose a 14 % tax on health insurer gains.
«We will not stand idly by while the federal government targets middle and working class New Yorkers — we must speak up now, mobilize to stop these devastating cuts and stand up for our New York values.»
Miner, who used Planned Parenthood for healthcare services while a student at Syracuse University, noted that Katko broke a campaign promise not to cut off federal money for the organization.
«New York's financially struggling hospitals were living austerely within the State's Medicaid spending cap well before the recent avalanche of Federal health care cuts, while other sectors, such as education, have not been held to theirs,» said Kenneth Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association.
The senator said it appears CUNY appears to be exempt from the across - the - board cuts that will be necessary if the $ 1.1 billion worth of federal Medicaid funding isn't forthcoming, while SUNY will not.
(CNN)- Two days before the deadline for a possible U.S. government default, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached agreement Sunday on a legislative package that would extend the federal debt ceiling while cutting spending and guaranteeing further deficit - reduction steps, Senate leaders announced.
While McMahon believes it should be phased out on schedule, Deutsch believes there should be a higher «recapture» rate for the wealthiest New Yorkers who will see windfalls from the federal tax cut passed by the Republican - led Congress in December.
After the Senate's bipartisan 91 - to - 9 vote in a favor of a bill that keeps federal agencies open through March 18 while enacting $ 4 billion in new spending cuts, Mr. Obama urged House and Senate leaders to meet with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and two top aides to work out a longer - term budget agreement.
A plurality of 45 percent says they will be about the same financially as a result of the new tax law — which cuts federal tax rates but curbs deductibility of state and local taxes — while 33 percent say they will be worse off, and only 15 percent say they will be better off financially.
While mandatory spending — mostly entitlements and mostly on autopilot — remains the largest driver of federal spending and a cause for ongoing fiscal concern, the relative political strength and prominence of mandatory programs made discretionary spending the easier target when it came time to cut.
The committee flat - funded R&D programs at the Federal Railroad Administration, rather than adopting the moderate requested cut, while trimming other smaller DOT programs.
While NASA's $ 200 million funding reduction pales in comparison to cuts that would face some federal agencies under the proposed budget (which has to be reviewed and approved by Congress before becoming official), it would make significant changes to how those dollars are spent.
While the federal component of research funding remains federal, state budget cuts threaten U.S. research quality, educators say.
Arts organizations, while fearful of the impact of federal budget cuts at the National Endowment for the Arts, are feeling a resurgence of support from the philanthropic community.
Had everything gone according to Hoyle, this massive infusion of federal funds would have protected state and district education budgets from major cuts while advancing invaluable reforms by supporting new, innovative, and promising programs.
While it wouldn't obliterate our federal budget deficits or cut the unemployment rate next month,...
-- Why have federal funding cuts reduced aid for regular public schools, which educate 90 % of American students, while the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to send more federal money to charter schools, which educate less than 5 % of American students?
While the administration's proposed cuts have been embraced by fiscal conservatives who argue that Education Department programs need to be trimmed or eliminated, some conservatives are also troubled by the administration's proposal to invest new money in school choice, saying that represents an unwelcome expansion of the federal footprint in education.