Sentences with phrase «bills by billions»

Efficiency investments have reduced the cost of doing business, lowered consumer energy bills by billions of dollars, and provided healthier, more comfortable spaces to live and work in.

During the lazy, hazy days of last summer, the Cuomo Administration approved a plan to hike New Yorkers» electric utility bills by billions of dollars.

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The revised bill cuts that amount to 25 percent, raising government revenue by $ 32.5 billion over a decade.

A recent report from WalletHub finds that the average corporate rate paid by companies is roughly 27 percent, so the new bill could represent potentially hundreds of millions (even billions) in savings.

Bill Gates and some of the world's other richest entrepreneurs will join with governments from both rich and emerging countries on Monday to kick off the Paris climate talks by pledging billions of dollars of investment in clean energy technologies.

Now that conservatives complained about the $ 1.3 trillion catchall spending bill — which blew through previous budget limits by $ 300 billion over this year and next, House GOP leaders have scheduled a vote this week on a proposed amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget.

For the two years combined, the bill is estimated to raise total spending by $ 300 billion, or $ 150 billion a year.

These include billion - dollar efforts by non-profits like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies to spur innovative solutions in education, public health, and poverty reduction.

Toronto - area hospital Bridgepoint Active Healthcare is shopping an ambitious plan to shave $ 4 billion - $ 6 billion annually off Ontario's bill by focusing on that minority.

The latest boost is the plan backed by top business leaders, including billionaire tech investors Bill Gates and Jack Ma, to set up a $ 1 billion fund for the development of innovative energy technologies.

So is the cost: Biden estimates his plan will run $ 80 - $ 110 billion to implement, an upper boundary in line with estimates floated by John Edwards, Bill Richardson, and Hillary Clinton.

The most optimistic assumption by the Tax Foundation estimated that even with new growth, the bill would increase the deficit by $ 448 billion over 10 years.

Valeant, backed by activist investor Bill Ackman, whose Pershing Square Capital Investment holds some 10 per cent of Allergan stock, originally announced its takeover bid back in April and has since boosted it twice to some US$ 53 billion.

If we raise each team's Forbes.com value by the same multiple as the Bills» sale price, which is 1.497 times bigger, the Dallas Cowboys are now worth $ 4.8 billion instead of their Forbes.com value of $ 3.2 billion (cont.

Since then, Rotary and its partners, including the World Health Organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have immunized more than 2.5 billion children, reducing the incidence of polio by 99 percent and eradicating it from all but three countries.

When the 2014 Farm Bill cut SNAP benefits by billions of dollars, 53,000 New York residents could have lost their food - stamp benefits.

That's why he's distributing his billions through foundations run by his friend Bill Gates, Doris, and his three children, Howard, Susan and Peter.

The Buffalo Bills were recently purchased by Terry Pegula for an NFL record $ 1.4 billion.

In 2016, the US Treasury Department instituted a new measure that put an end to the $ 160 billion mega-merger between Pfizer and Irish specialty pharma Allergan, a deal that was pitched as a way to help Pfizer cut its tax bill by moving its corporate headquarters to Ireland.

According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, enacting the bill would shrink the federal budget deficit by $ 175 billion by 2020, lift GDP by 5.4 % over the next 20 years, increase national productivity, balloon the workforce by about 5 % by 2033, raise the return on capital, and (although the CBO didn't put it this way) create a $ 46 billion windfall for entrepreneurs supplying security operations along the U.S. southern border.

The deal values the combined company at $ 160 billion (including debt), and, as expected, is structured in such a way as to reduce Pfizer's tax bill by moving its domicile out of the U.S. to Ireland.

If Congress had not enacted the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, 10 million taxpayers would owe the AMT in 2007, according to estimates by the Urban Institute - Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center; reducing the number of affected taxpayers to several million, as the House - passed AMT «patch» bill would do, would have cost less than $ 15 billion.

Consumers will collectively be able to save «$ 155 billion from 2020 - 2030» on energy bills, and $ 85 a year on an individual energy bill by 2030.

The tech giant has, so far, had the biggest dollar windfall, seeing its tax bill plummet by $ 1 billion.

A claim by the Opposition Leader Bill Shorten that private insurers held $ 6 billion in excess capital was misleading because most of the excess was held by non-profit funds, analysts said.

By contrast, Bill Gates, cofounder of Microsoft, currently holds the title with a total net worth of $ 89.7 billion.

The bill permanently eliminates the individual mandate that penalizes people for not having health insurance, raising $ 338 billion over 10 years by causing about 13 million fewer people, according to the Congressional Budget Office, to enroll in Medicaid or private insurance.

Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander and Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, have partnered with Democrats on bills that would reel in rate hikes by resuming reimbursements for insurers who pick up low - income customers costs on the Obamacare exchanges and freeing up billions for a «reinsurance» program that blunts the cost of customers with big claims, so others don't have to pay more.

The Financial Times estimated last year that the GOP tax bill would slash Apple's tax liability by $ 47 billion.

The U.S. was claiming it was willing to make big reductions to its agricultural subsidies, but the recent passage of a $ 300 billion farm bill by the U.S. Congress make it unlikely that the U.S. is serious about real reductions.

Pimco Total Return Fund holds over $ 240 billion in assets and is piloted by noted bond fund manager, Bill Gross.

But Capitol Hill is also widely expected to take up an emergency «supplemental» funding bill that would send tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars to help begin to repair the Texas coast using the Federal Relief Act, which allows the federal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit by natural disasters.

The one - year delay would lower the cost of the Senate bill by more than $ 100 billion, giving negotiators more revenue for other changes.

For example, Bill and Melinda Gates — and a consortium of other well - known investors — recently launched the $ 2 billion green energy Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, whose goal is to invest in technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least half a gigaton.

Cruz, speaking Monday on MSNBC, called the criticism «political sniping» and stood by his vote against Sandy aid: «The problem with that particular bill is, it became a $ 50 billion bill that was filled with unrelated pork,» he said.

John also sued his Uncle Richard because he and Bill, his brother, share control of a the $ 2.8 billion trust established by John's grandparents J. Willard and Alice Marriott, founders of the hotel chain.

The tax is a critical revenue raiser in the House bill — worth about $ 155 billion over a decade — and applies to purchases by U.S. subsidiaries of multinational businesses from their foreign counterparts.

Powell also suggested that the Fed supports the banking bill proposed by senator Mike Crapo which proposes raising the limit of designating for systemically important financial institutions from $ 50 to $ 250 billion.

Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.

Stratasys has racked up nearly $ 1.6 billion in GAAP net losses over the past three years, you see, and if the company were ever to become profitable (or be acquired by a company that is profitable), then those $ 1.6 billion in «deferred tax assets» could be used to offset future profits, and lower Stratasys» (or an acquirer's) tax bill.

However, Congress began to pass budget - busting legislation back in 2015 by pursuing a permanent debt - financed doc fix followed by an even more costly tax extender (and omnibus appropriations) bill — at a total cost of over $ 100 billion in 2019.

The overall Forbes list is topped as usual by Bill Gates of Microsoft, with $ 86 billion, followed by familiar names Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway at $ 75.6 billion and Jeff Bezos, whose $ 72.8 billion reflects a sharp rise in the value of Amazon.com.

In looking for offsets, the Senate could start by turning to its House companion, which includes over $ 300 billion of reforms not incorporated in the Senate bill.

Recent estimates produced with models similar to JCT's have found the tax bills may increase the growth rate by 0.03 to 0.09 percentage points per year, producing as much as $ 200 billion of dynamic feedback.

The U.S. Senate on June 29 approved a bill that will allow Puerto Rico to restructure roughly $ 70 billion of debt in return for accepting involvement by a federal oversight board.

The NDP admits that under this fiscal plan, it plans to run Alberta's total debt up to $ 96 billion by 2024, effectively handing the bill for all this spending to our children and grandchildren.

Though many firms traded places on this year's ranking, CBRE's investment sales team — led by Darcy Stacom and Bill Shanahan — held onto the No. 2 spot, with $ 6.02 billion across 29 transactions.

It would not surprise us to see issuance climb to over $ 55 billion by year - end, and it could break the existing record for issuance (December 1985: $ 58 billion — when issuers were trying to beat the last major tax bill).

The 2018 bill boosts federal health spending by about $ 10 billion, including increases for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and specifically dedicated opioid crisis funding...

The footage serves as a plausible facsimile of the war as defined by the Pentagon; it tells viewers nothing about the origins and nature of an enemy that Republicans and Democrats alike have been ignoring for the last ten years, out of deference to the demands of Big Oil and in the hope that a world of six billion people might wake up one morning, consider the odds, and start bowing to Bill Gates, Michael Jordan, and the Goddess of Democracy.