Sentences with phrase «about cuts to the budget»

«The Finance Minister continues to make excuses and complain about cuts to the budget, but the fact is that the Labour Welsh Government is completely out of ideas.

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There is another, more subtle effect of cost - cutting, when managers anxious about budgets restrict — deliberately or not — front - line employees» ability to make decisions about customer service.

Both identify about $ 1.2 trillion in spending cuts to the day - to - day operating budgets of government agencies, though Reid's proposal also counts an extra $ 1 trillion in savings from winding down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A Thursday all - hands meeting, organized to calm staff about the budget cuts, only created more anxiety.

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2016, file photo, New Mexico Finance and Administration Secretary Duffy Rodriguez, from left, Taxation and Revenue Secretary Demesia Padilla and Legislative Finance Committee Director David Abbey give testimony to lawmakers about state budget shortfalls in Red River, N.M. New Mexico's grinding budget crisis is taking a visible toll in courtrooms where overburdened attorneys have denied legal counsel to poor defendants, at museums reeling from layoffs and admission hikes, and at state universities and colleges grappling with steep spending cuts.

Eliminating the state and local tax deduction would raise about one - quarter of the $ 4 trillion in revenues that some Republicans say they need to prevent tax cuts from creating a massive increase in the federal budget deficit.

That spending recommendation — entitled «America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again» — would slash $ 5.8 billion, or about 18 %, from the annual outlay for the National Institutes of Health, and it would cut even more sharply from other programs within the Department of Health and Human Services.

As talk about the economy has largely focused on tax cuts, the U.S. budget deficit and the potential for trade tariffs, one of the biggest things investors and the general public seem to be missing is the increased spending soon to be pumped into the U.S. economy by the government.

Budgetary revenues closed at $ 241.9 Â billion, compared to $ 236.7 in the budget, with corporate income tax up 12 % (don't worry about corporations paying too much, we're giving them tax cuts).

O'Neil said he's skeptical about the assumptions that a Trump agenda of increased government spending and tax cuts will be fully enacted and lead to faster growth, higher inflation and bigger budget deficits.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page, in his last week on the job, is taking the government to court in a bid to have Ottawa release information about the impacts on federal jobs and services from $ 5.2 billion in cuts announced in last year's budget.Photo by Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press / Files

«Almost a year after the 2012 budget, Conservatives still haven't given clear answers about which regions of the country will lose federal jobs or what services are going to be cut.

The White House budget director came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell President Donald Trump's budget, but the administration's allies in the Senate preferred to talk about last year's tax cut rather than the trillion - dollar deficits contained in the new spending plan.

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Mr. Harper did not have much to say about this, except to remind everyone that his government had cut the GST and then to read a list of various industry associations who had expressed favourable sentiments about the most recent budget.

Ryan's advocacy for cutting taxes and trimming the deficit — he is the architect of the GOP's proposed federal budget — married with his willingness to talk about fiscal belt - tightening in moral terms and his low - key social conservatism speak to a political moment in which the economic concerns of the Tea Party and the social focus of the Christian right have merged into a relatively cohesive anti-Obama movement.

With the entry into the vice-presidential contest of Ryan, a Catholic and the architect of recent Republican budget proposals, Americans are turning their attention to Catholic social thought, weighing what bishops and nuns have to say about his proposals for lower taxes and cuts in entitlement programs.

Already stuck with revenue about 1 / 20th that of Texas, GSU has also taken the brunt of concussive budget cuts to higher education in Louisiana.

My biggest concern about war is that billions of dollars are going to bombs while budgets are being cut for education, health care, social services and Medicaid.

About 3,000 teachers and school - based staff have already been laid off this summer because of school closings and cuts to individual school budgets.

And it seems as we travel around to state and national conferences to talk to our many friends in the recreation field, more and more we hear about budgets being cut, staff let go and recreation programs being forced to turn their programs over to volunteer based organizations simply because they have no other choice.

Personally, I'm more concerned with this happening since the majority of Republican congressmen I have spoken to always ask me about how I feel about making NSLP a block grant, very similar to how Reagan dismantled the program in 1990 by cutting $ 1.4 BILLION from the budget.

This isn't really a place to cut corners in terms of baby supplies, but you can find much of what you need in a variety of different locations and at prices that are suitable for just about any budget.

Choose an obstetrician or health care provider Interview potential doctors Contact health insurance company about coverage Start and pregnancy and birth budget Discuss financial effects of pregnancy and baby with partner Stop smoking Stop drinking Stop using street drugs Talk to your physician about any prescription medications Drink at least 8 glasses of water every day Visit the doctor at least once per month or every 4 weeks Do not dye or perm hair Stop drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages Exercise daily Start taking prenatal vitamins Eat foods rich in folic acid Eat iron rich foods Increase daily intake of whole grains, fruits and vegetables Nap as much as possible as fatigue is common Eat fish with low levels of mercury no more than 2 days per week Do not eat undercooked meats Do not eat unpasteurized dairy producs Do not eat cold cut deli meats Allow someone else to clean out the kitty litter, if applicable Limit exposure to chemicals Try to limit stress and tension Complete all prenatal tests — HIV, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Anemia, Blood Typing, Sickle Cell Anemia, Urine Screening and Rubella.

«I was speaking to some colleagues in Southwark about this last night and the route of their concerns was that in the council there, they were cutting budgets all over the place and they were concerned about the allocation of resources within the council.

That's thanks largely to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was the first to suggest additional disaster aid — remember that FEMA only has about $ 800 million on hand, which is less than even New York's estimated storm bill of $ 1 billion — be offset by other budget cuts.

So, I would urge all my colleagues in the new Jersey delegation, no matter which party you're in, and all the rest of the folks in Congress, that nobody was asking about offsetting budget cuts in Joplin, and I don't want to hear about the fact that offsetting budget cuts have to come first before New Jersey citizens are taken care of.»

«I find it unacceptable that hospital executives are crying to the legislature about how much budget cuts would hurt their hospitals and they are being paid excessive salaries in the millions of dollars,» the assemblywoman said.

At a time of ever - growing risk of flooding, and an insurance industry about to walk away, this David Cameron's government is cutting the flood defence budget.

Congressional Budget Office estimated in June 2012 that the Bush tax cuts (both acts) added about $ 1.6 trillion to the debt between 2001 and 2011.

«There's a lot of people who have a concern about that, you know were cutting budgets everywhere, how does it look for us to spend the taxpayers» money on our own campaigns?

Whether we're talking about the «squeezed middle», the «cost - of - living crisis» or cutting the «biggest budget deficit in our peacetime history», it's fair to say that many Brits will be feeling pretty taxed already by the time the chancellor stands up to deliver his budget speech on Wednesday.

In this clip, dated May 10, Caputo is getting a haircut and engaging in a heated conversation with his barber, Jack, (whose hobby appears to be enaging his customers in political debates while cutting their hair) about the current budget battle in Albany.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio traveled to Albany to talk about the potential cuts in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget that would impact the Medicaid program and the City University of New York.

Sir Bernard Hogan - Howe gives biggest intervention yet in the debate about how police are to cope with large budget cuts

Reps. Peter King and Michael Grimm are bucking their own conference by expressing «grave concern» to House Speaker John Boehner about budget cuts contained in the FY2011 Continuing Resolution that they believe disproportionately impact the five boroughs of NYC and Long Island.

Obviously, there has been much talk about the political fight that Cuomo and Silver are likely to have over budget cuts, and controversial fiscal policies like a property tax cap.

Iannuzzi has been one of the few outspoken critics of Governor Andrew Cuomo and his proposed budget, which cut state aid to schools by 2.7 % or about $ 1.3 billion.

It seems like the two sides might be able to agree on $ 315 million worth of mid-year budget cuts, since everyone has been running around talking about how dire the fiscal outlook is for 2011 and how much they want to help ease the burden for the incoming governor, Andrew Cuomo.

When the governor has said to us he would like us to cut 10 percent, we are talking about cutting thousands of employees, and there is no way I can cut thousands of employees without shutting down courts,» Pfau told legislators at today's joint budget hearing.

Asked what he thought Cuomo's motivation was for penning the OpEd about the built - in spending increases, Silver said he believes the governor looked at his proposed budget and determined he's going to «wind up spending more money than was spent last year even though he said there would be a cut.»

The Senate Republicans are starting to make noises about a two - way budget deal with the Assembly, which would cut Gov. Andrew Cuomo out of the picture — at least temporarily.

The Conservative - controlled north London council has committed to spending # 1.5 m this financial year on a much - hyped reform programme to help close a yawning budget gap, but it is on course to recoup just # 1.4 m in savings in the year.The programme is budgeted to deliver savings of # 13m a year by 2014, about a third of the total cuts planned by the council.

With no budget, about $ 900 million in cuts to state funding for cities and towns are scheduled to take effect this month under an executive order by the governor.

David Jones announced that Wales would get an extra # 161 million to spend on infrastructure — but we all remember that this is just putting back some of the # 500 million cut in capital spending that was made in 2010 budget and even in the terms of this Budget it's not quite as simple as the Welsh Secretary would have us believe, because a further # 59m is cut out of the Welsh Government's revenue funding, forcing hard decisions about cuts to services on which we allbudget and even in the terms of this Budget it's not quite as simple as the Welsh Secretary would have us believe, because a further # 59m is cut out of the Welsh Government's revenue funding, forcing hard decisions about cuts to services on which we allBudget it's not quite as simple as the Welsh Secretary would have us believe, because a further # 59m is cut out of the Welsh Government's revenue funding, forcing hard decisions about cuts to services on which we all rely.

«We've prevented a crazy 6 per cent rise in the EU budget, we've made sure the EU budget must reflect domestic spending cuts, and we've protected the UK taxpayer from having to bail out EU countries that get themselves into trouble,» he said at a press conference -LSB-...] A 2.9 per cent increase is expected to see Britain's contribution to the EU budget grow by about # 400 million a year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tax commissioner is set to testify before a legislative budget hearing Monday morning, and he's expected to get plenty of questions about a plan to freeze property taxes and cut some income taxes.

«The Mayor has threatened to lay off a quarter of the teaching force, but Governor Cuomo made it clear today that there is nothing in the proposed state budget that would require local layoffs,» he said in a statement, adding that the governor's planned cut to city schools amounts to only about three percent of the city's school's budget.

The latest version of a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is now dead in Congress, but New York Governor Andrew Cuomo remains worried about another potential cut in federal funds to hospitals that he says will blow a hole in the state budget.

He says much less about the significant cuts he's going to have to make to the state's budget — what hospitals he will close, what educational programs he will suspend — if he intends to keep his campaign pledge to not raise taxes and, more to the point, to prevent New York from sliding any further into a financial abyss.