Sentences with phrase «affect federal spending»

Republicans could try to use the budget reconciliation process, which requires only a simply majority in the Senate, to make changes to Dodd - Frank regulations that affect federal spending and taxes.

Not exact matches

This procedural tool would allow the chamber to pass certain kinds of legislation which affects the federal budget — including spending on programs like Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, and Social Security — with a simple majority.

The provisions in the bill must directly affect the federal government's spending or revenue — it's a way to restrict what policies can pass under the special privileges of reconciliation, which allows a bill to advance with only 50 votes instead of the usual 60.

The Cruz amendment will first have to survive the so - called «Byrd Rule,» which is supposed to limit the bill to policies that directly affect federal revenue and spending.

Fiscal policy: The way in which the federal government can affect the economy through tax and spending policies.

National and local health care officials said cuts in federal spending to combat the Zika virus means fewer pregnant women will be tested and there will be less money available to develop a vaccine and research how the disease affects fetal brains.

A federal audit says New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration mismanaged $ 22 million spent to promote tourism in areas affected by three damaging storms.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled an $ 89.06 billion executive budget proposal for the 2019 fiscal year on Thursday, decrying new spending that the city must undertake to meet shortfalls and unfunded mandates imposed by the new state budget approved last month, and cautioning of federal actions that could affect the city's fiscal future.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the federal budget fight forcing temporary across - the - board spending cuts will affect New Yorkers including students and seniors.

The deal came together barely three hours before the midnight deadline, after negotiators cleared two final hurdles involving the estate tax and automatic spending cuts set to affect the Pentagon and other federal agencies this week.

OMB's role in the budget process does not end when Congress passes and the President signs the annual appropriations bills (or, in more recent years, the continuing resolutions to provide funding for a limited period of time after the fiscal year until the appropriations bills are agreed upon).195 OMB is intimately involved in budget execution — the way federal agencies carry out their work under the budgetary authority they have been granted.196 OMB affects budget execution through two different levers: the formal specification lever, through which it «apportions» and otherwise defines how agencies spend the funds Congress has appropriated, and the informal monitoring lever, through which it oversees agencies» implementation of their programs.

Econ Ed Mobile Learning App — Free iPhone app created by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that allows you to visualize and understand how inflation and the cost of credit can affect your spending and saving decisions

Though it's not a spending measure, the Every Student Succeeds Act contains important new fiscal elements that could be affected by the federal budget debates in Washington.

The loss will affect public - school districts in two ways: They will lose control of how they spend a portion of their federal funding (roughly $ 40 million statewide); and many could be declared failing and possibly subject to remedies as extreme as state takeover or replacement of most of the staff.

The congressional Republicans» tax plan — with its call for the elimination of some or all federal income deductions that Californians have taken for state and local income taxes, sales and real estate taxes — accompanied by big cuts to health care spending, could affect the state's economy and budget.

the massive state budget cuts, despite the federal stimulus, that have affected education spending; and

Today, I've teamed up with Navy Federal Credit Union to talk about credit cards, their uses, responsible spending, and how they can affect a military family.

On the flip side, Trump's plan would reduce federal revenues by $ 9.5 trillion over 10 years, and that would require the government to massively reduce spending, which could negatively affect Americans, according to the Tax Policy Center.

Of course, my tiny bit of distrust will not affect climate science directly, but as a citizen, voter and taxpayer I will oppose the climate change agenda, I will seek to have its funding reduced, and I support criminal investigation of climate scientists who take federal funding but do not comply with FOI requests and accountability for how those funds are spent.

He has spent an average of 20 hours per week for the last two and a half years in the bankruptcy courtrooms and the rest of his time has been spent assisting clients throughout California to obtain all the relief available to them under federal and state law, and attending substantial amounts of seminars on cutting edge topics affecting Bankruptcy Law, Foreclosure, and Debt Relief.

Considering Facebook spent more on federal lobbying last year than in any year in the company's history — and Google, which also would likely be affected by such a federal online privacy law, spent more money on lobbying than any other company in the U.S. — a privacy law similar to the European regulations would face a steep climb.