Sentences with phrase «at reducing the budget deficit»

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The parliamentary budget office's report says the slippage in spending is likely to affect the budgetary balance sheet by reducing planned deficits in one year at the expense of deeper spending in future years.

Since coming to power at the end of 2015, a minority socialist Portuguese government has overcome initial skepticism among market participants and successfully introduced measures to reduce its budget deficit and reform the country's banking system, providing greater stability for investors.

«There are worries about the ability of the Japanese policymakers to reduce sufficiently their budget deficit,» IMF economist Olivier Blanchard said at the Tokyo meetings.

«The deficit needs to be reduced and the budget balanced, but not on the backs of middle - income families and not at the expense of Social Security and Medicare.

Recognising these challenges, the authorities prepared and discussed with the mission, a package of measures which would reduce the risk of expenditure overruns, in particular on the wage bill, and keep the 2016 budget outturn consistent with the programme objectives, with an overall cash deficit now projected at 4.8 percent of GDP.

The Congressional Budget Office says the American Health Care Act would reduce the federal deficit over the 2017 - 2026 period by $ 119 billion, but also leave 23 million Americans without insurance, while at the same time lower the average insurance premiums.

Major issues during the 2014 legislative session included a budget deficit estimated at $ 100 million, pension reform, raising the minimum wage, reducing corporate income taxes, and raising bridge tolls.

State Sen. John Flanagan (R - East Northport), chairman of his chamber's Education Committee, said the Senate's proposal would go well beyond the governor's plan in reducing the so - called Gap Elimination Adjustment, or GEA, an accounting mechanism introduced in 2009 - 10 to help the state cut a budget deficit then estimated at $ 10 billion.

In his emergency budget the Chancellor George Osborne announced «tough but fair» cuts aimed at reducing Britain's record budget deficit.

The budget funds essential services at a minimal cost to taxpayers, while honoring the County Legislature's law mandating a $ 10 million payment be made to reduce the deficit.

President Obama's bipartisan deficit - reduction commission is making recommendations for reducing the deficit, and here at The Humane Society of the United States and the Humane Society Legislative Fund we are proposing a few cost - cutting measures for lawmakers to consider in getting the country's budget back on track.

At the committee, Gove was clear that he has to act within the «budget envelope» and that as the Ministry of Justice is an unprotected department he has to do his part to reduce the deficit.

To the extent that there are market risks, they largely stem from the federal government, which continues to look at ways to reduce its budget deficit.