Sentences with phrase «about budget sequestration»

And that's exactly what the White House did, by jumping on the #JediMindMeld hashtag with a relevant joke of their own (including both Star Wars and Star Trek references)... AND a link to their own materials about budget sequestration.

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The automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration have begun and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is raising concerns about the potential impact on Vermonters.

There is great uncertainty about the impact the federal budget cuts, through the process known as sequestration, will have on the Massachusetts economy.

• On Tuesday in ScienceInsider, David Malakoff wrote about an apparent budget agreement between the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives that would prevent sequestration from extending into 2014 and 2015.

To put these reductions in some historical context: in FY 2013, the sequestration year, the NIH budget was cut by about five percent.

As has been reported elsewhere, the Administration is looking to take $ 54 billion from the nondefense budget, representing about an 11 percent reduction, and shift it over to the defense budget, thereby eliminating the defense sequestration caps.

Indeed, the American Association of School Administrators recently surveyed school administrators about their preparations for the looming sequestration cuts, finding that more than half trimmed their 2012 — 13 budgets to offset sequestration.

See this previous issue of Policy Points (PDF) for background information about sequestration and how the budget caps affect education funding.

With Congressional representatives unable to reach any sort of a compromise, the federal budget sequestration process is about to go into full swing, a process that will require reductions in all federal government services and programs, as well as furloughs or layoffs of an estimated 108,000 federal agency employees, according to a Center for Strategic Budgetary Assessments report.

There are complex geological processes und uncertainties about the sequestration, as you say the overall budget it not completely understood.