Sentences with phrase «about federal cuts»

When Gotham Gazette asked de Blasio about the new budget mechanism that gives Cuomo additional power and any concerns for New York City he may have, particularly about federal cuts trickling down to the city, the mayor said he wasn't completely familiar with the provision, but from what he did know, he wasn't sure why it was needed.

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That data raised a fresh round of questions about how the Federal Reserve will proceed on further cutting back on its massive monthly bond purchases, which have kept long - term rates low and encouraged a strong rally on equity markets.

The federal government has made sweeping cuts to red tape as small and medium businesses grow more confident about the year ahead, but a growing number believes the state government is working against their best interests, according to the latest Sensis survey.

The cuts were expected to save the federal government about $ 133 billion a year.

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.

For one, federal spending cuts are also likely weighing on state and local government hiring — as about 25 % of their funding comes from Washington.

Unless, of course, you are talking about the families of the wealthy and privileged who have received about 70 per cent of federal personal tax cuts over the past 10 years.

«Each one percentage point cut to the corporate income tax rate costs the federal government about $ 2 billion in annual revenues,» wrote the authors, one of whom was CLC chief economist Andrew Jackson...

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.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailIf asked what the federal government is doing to cut carbon pollution, most Canadians would likely point to the policy they've heard the most about: carbon pricing.

If asked what the federal government is doing to cut carbon pollution, most Canadians would likely point to the policy they've heard the most about: carbon pricing.

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.»

«If they were at the same 21 percent share of corporate profits as they had averaged in the two decades before these cuts, the federal government would have about $ 25 billion more in corporate tax revenues annually.

If you look at the history of the Federal Reserve, typically, when they react to a crisis or a recession on average they cut interest rates about five percent from their prior peak.

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.

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.

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Officials also try to be careful about how much food to serve to fulfill federal requirements and cut down on waste.

Proponents of raising taxes on New York's wealthiest say they have a new impetus to increase the state's revenue — the continued bad news from Washington about deep federal cuts to health care and other areas.

Despite lingering fears about cuts to health care in Washington, it's worth noting that federal funding for the state's massive Medicaid program is still on track to go up, not down, in the year ahead.

Federal officials have reportedly confirmed that they are cutting off a major portion of funding for New York's Essential Plan, opening a roughly $ 1 billion hole in the state budget and raising new doubts about the future of a rapidly growing health insurance option for the working poor.

«As always, you have to make decisions about how much you can afford to do in school aid and how much money you have to put aside for the potential impact of federal cuts in Medicaid and in health care,» Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) said last week.

After weeks of warning about its possible consequences, a federal cut to New York's hospitals took effect on Sunday, adding stress to the state's already overworked public health care system.

They are concerned about funding cuts for foster care programs, public health and federal social service funds being reprogrammed.

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.

Concerns about possible cuts in federal aid to Planned Parenthood have spurred some high - profile outreach efforts in recent days.

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.

Tax revenues from Wall Street, meanwhile, are shrinking, and the state's federal stimulus money, which has added up to about $ 6 billion annually since 2008, will be cut off in another year, two at most.

Cuomo is worried about changes to the state and local deduction as well potential cuts to Medicaid spending from the federal government.

Bill Hammond: «Federal officials have reportedly confirmed that they are cutting off a major portion of funding for New York's Essential Plan, opening a roughly $ 1 billion hole in the state budget and raising new doubts about the future of a rapidly growing health insurance option for the working poor.»

A sobering report to governors about the potential consequences of repealing the Obama - era health care law warns that federal spending cuts probably would create funding gaps for states and threaten many people with the loss of insurance coverage.

Cuomo in recent months has been outspoken about the federal tax cut plan hurting high - tax blue states like New York and California by severely restricting the federal deductibility of state and local income and property taxes.

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

Turner said that if it were up to him, he would cut federal spending by 35 percent — including gutting the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and slashing the budget of the U.S. Department of Education — which he said would take about seven to 10 years to accomplish.

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

The federal budget proposal would cut about $ 2.9 trillion to human services programs, including to 13 Suffolk agencies.

Using a current - law baseline measure, the state budget gap for fiscal 2018 - 19 alone was last projected by DOB at $ 4 billion, a figure the governor himself began citing recently (without further explanation) in his recent warnings about the implications of federal health care spending cuts.

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There is much concern in Washington about the impending «fiscal cliff» of severe cuts to federal programs that will automatically result if Congress and the Obama administration can not agree on a deficit reduction plan by the end of this year.

The sequester cuts, or series of across - the - board federal budget reductions, are split evenly between domestic spending and defense, and at least one New York Congressman is voicing concerns about the latter.

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

The governor, in his speech to business leaders, also made the case for a Washington - style continuing resolution to keep state spending going beyond the April 1 deadline without a settled budget, if there's uncertainty about whether federal aid may be significantly cut.

The mayor deflected questions about those findings at a news conference in City Hall on proposed federal budget cuts.

UFT members from Districts 13, 14 and 17 as well as high schools from those areas heard UFT President Michael Mulgrew speak about the proposed federal education budget cuts, the attack on unions by far - right privatization advocates, the dangers to hard - won benefits if a state constitutional convention is held in 2018 and other pressing issues.

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.

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.

Because high stress levels can cut into life - span and reproduction, at least in laboratory animals, Wasser says the results — which he emphasizes are preliminary — raise some questions about the efficacy of federal regulations designed to protect the owl.

Fermilab announced that, as a result of the federal funding cuts, it would have to lay off about 200 of its 1,940 employees, who are already taking unpaid one - week furloughs every two months for the rest of the fiscal year.

Plans for the 2020 mission eased fears about a potential brain drain at JPL driven by federal budget cuts.