Sentences with phrase «back in federal spending»

New York sent nearly $ 41 billion more to Washington than it received back in federal spending — more than double the gap four years ago, according to a report released on Tuesday.

New York sent about $ 40.9 billion more in tax payments to Washington in 2016 than it received back in federal spending.

Donovan, like Cuomo and other officials, have pointed to the amount of money New York sends to the federal government in taxes versus what it gets back in federal spending.

New York sent nearly $ 41 billion more to Washington than it received back in federal spending — more than double the gap four years ago, according to a report released...

«New York sent an estimated $ 40.9 billion more in tax payments to Washington in 2016 than it received back in federal spending,» DiNapoli said.

Cuomo has argued the state sends back a disproportionate share in taxes to Washington compared to what comes back in federal spending.

But states such as North Dakota, South Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia and Indiana get more than two dollars back in federal spending for every dollar in taxes.

Not exact matches

The drop in spending largely reflects cut backs in the federal government required by the so - called sequester that went into effect in March.

After inheriting a surplus the government immediately cut the GST by two points, and in doing so created a structural deficit and an unsustainable fiscal situation, which then required significant spending cuts in the 2010, 2011 and 20012 budgets in order to put the federal finances back on a sustainable path.

The cost of the 2011 cutbacks in federal spending will fall most directly on consumers and retirees by scaling back Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and social spending programs.

In my recent National Post column, I make reference to some back - of - envelope calculations to the effect that replacing the fiscal anchor of balanced budgets to one of a fixed debt - GDP ratio allows the federal government to increase spending by 1.2 percentage points of GDP, or by about $ 25 billion.

And the reason I argue in the book that earlier depression was over so quickly was because the federal government really did sit back and do nothing, they actually slashed spending because this was right after World War I.

Tax me less, spend less, and if you really feel compelled to keep a bit of pork in that fat Federal Belly... at least use my tax dollar too help supplement wounded veterans and / or assist wartime veterans in some of the things they need to re-integrate back into their country after serving it.

And the conference backs $ 90 million in spending for new federal mandates for background clearances, licensing and regulatory compliance along with training.

Flanagan, meanwhile, echoed much of what Cuomo has said — that New York sends more to the federal government in taxes than what it has gotten back in spending.

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed to fight back against Washington Republicans on Tuesday with a $ 168 billion state budget proposal that lays out spending on schools and mass transit while also confronting greater uncertainty in federal funding.

On topic questions included funding for items in the City's SIRR report and whether there is an alternative source for such items, whether the mayor is satisfied with the pace of City spending of federal money for Sandy relief, whether the mayor is confident of reaching his 500 construction starts and 500 reimbursement checks by Labor Day, Comptroller Scott Stringer's report on a lack of oversight on spending by the Department of Homeless Services, whether the City has the «right formula» for Build It Back, the total number of homes damaged by Sandy and when all will reached through Build It Back, how many of the 132 construction starts to date are repairs and how many are rebuilds and whether the mayor has closely examined the City's emergency management system in the context of preparing for a future coastal storm.

Adding back temporary federal stimulus funds used to supplement state funds in each of the last three years, state operating spending under the new budget is up a whopping 8.4 percent over 2007 - 08, although both personal income and private - sector economic activity in New York has dropped sharply during the Great Recession.

He noted that New York already pays far more in federal taxes than it gets back from Washington in federal spending — $ 48 billion more.

The Empire State Development Corp. on Tuesday pushed back against an audit released last week by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development that was critical of the way $ 22 million in tourism funding was spent for areas impacted by storms.

The mailer basically argues that by backing federal spending cuts and helping create jobs, Corwin will be «getting America's fiscal house in order... the best insurance for our seniors.»

The Senate backs a plan that would require transparency in procurement procedures along with new disclosure rules for advisory boards and those that advise state agencies on the spending of both federal and state money.

Remember when he didn't spend the federal job creation money in order to shore up the county's finances — that came back to haunt him too.

[105] Alaska's federal congressional representatives cut back on pork - barrel project requests during Palin's time as governor; despite this, in 2008 Alaska was still the largest per - capita recipient of federal earmarks, requesting nearly $ 750 million in special federal spending over a period of two years.

Cuomo's aides said he needs the authority to hold back spending without legislative consent in case the federal government drastically reduces the aid due to New York.

Others say the Pentagon is simply using the hearings to pressure Congress into rolling back the Budget Control Act of 2011, the law that set federal spending caps in order to achieve a $ 1.2 trillion deficit reduction over 10 years.

Lawyers for six former trustees suing to get their positions back after they were kicked out by Mayor de Blasio and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz revealed in court papers the library has retained a high - powered former federal judge to probe leaks that led to a series of stories in The News about library director Thomas Galante's $ 392,000 salary and his free - spending ways.

For instance, will the state save enough money from the effects of the new coverage to offset its required future spending to support the Healthy Michigan Plan when federal funding is scaled back in 2017?

As in the 2008 platform, the party backs federal spending on biomedical research, but also gives a special shoutout to the value of neuroscience.

Goodman's film, while stressing Timothy McVeigh's virtually one - man show in accumulating the needed materials for a bomb which he detonated on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, spends almost half of its ninety - eight minutes giving the backdrop — not way back to third - party structures like the anti-Catholic Know Nothing movement of 1855 but stretching to the mischief - making of two of McVeigh's forefathers.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

In general, there are three categories: Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs), which are backed by the federal government; proprietary reverse mortgages, which are basically private loans; and single - purpose reverse mortgages, which come together with limitations in terms of what you can spend the money oIn general, there are three categories: Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs), which are backed by the federal government; proprietary reverse mortgages, which are basically private loans; and single - purpose reverse mortgages, which come together with limitations in terms of what you can spend the money oin terms of what you can spend the money on.

Navy Federal nRewards Secured Card & BankAmericard ® Secured Credit Card both offer rewards programs which are much more flexible and offer competing rates (maximum of 3 cents cash back for the BoA card and 1 cents in gift certificates for Navy Federal per dollar spent).

In an agreement announced on Feb. 26, 2007, TXU agreed to cancel 8 of its planned 11 new Texas coal - fired power plants as well as several new coal - fired plants in Pennsylvania and Virginia, back federal legislation to create a cap - and - trade system regulating CO2 emissions, and double spending on energy efficiencIn an agreement announced on Feb. 26, 2007, TXU agreed to cancel 8 of its planned 11 new Texas coal - fired power plants as well as several new coal - fired plants in Pennsylvania and Virginia, back federal legislation to create a cap - and - trade system regulating CO2 emissions, and double spending on energy efficiencin Pennsylvania and Virginia, back federal legislation to create a cap - and - trade system regulating CO2 emissions, and double spending on energy efficiency.

As part of the estimated US$ 45 million buyout, Luminant settled a series of lawsuits with Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council and agreed to cancel 8 of its planned 11 new Texas coal - fired power plants as well as several new coal - fired plants in Pennsylvania and Virginia, back federal legislation to create a cap - and - trade system regulating CO2 emissions, and double spending on energy efficiency.

«It goes back to economics and circumstances,» said Lanre Onigbinde - Dey, 35, of Toronto, who spent eight years in federal prison for manslaughter after killing a man in a knife fight when he was 24.

Back in January, the United States Supreme Court released its judgment in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 558 U.S. 50 (2010)[PDF], a challenge by a «non-profit corporation» to § 441b of the U.S. Code limiting election spending by corporations.