Sentences with phrase «board federal cuts»

The mandatory across - the - board federal cuts known as sequestration slashed $ 1.55 billion from NIH's budget this year and will result in belt - tightening at labs with ongoing grants as well as hundreds fewer new grants than in 2012.

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If Democrats and Republicans can't find a way to spend within those limits, the sequester kicks in, which brings federal spending under the statutory caps via automatic, across - the - board cuts.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act went into effect at the beginning of the year, touting a reduction in federal income rates across the board.

The bankrupt island's federal oversight board certified plans that include cuts to pensions and other austerity measures.

In the June 2014 Federal Reserve Open Market Committee minutes, the board decided to cut the current quantitative easing program altogether by October, indicating that perhaps, after several years of halting asset purchase programs, the economy is finally ready to fly on its own.

I mean, he was aware that there were hazards here, that if we didn't get the bond market rally, if we didn't get cooperation from the Fed [Federal Reserve Board]-- and the Fed, remember, is very independent and Alan Greenspan was not known to be a Democrat — if that didn't happen, there was a hazard that you raise taxes and cut spending and the economy is not that strong anyway, and you wind up with a recession.

Counterpunch Against the recommendations of most economists and even the Financial Times of London, the Federal Reserve Board yesterday cut its discount rate by yet another quarter - point, to just 2 %.

The SNA Executive Board founded the PAC on the heels of the 1981 federal budget crisis that resulted in deep cuts in federal child nutrition program budgets.

Because of lower - than - expected federal assistance for Medicaid, Albany instituted an across - the - board budget sweep of 1.1 percent, cutting state spending and also siphoning off theoretically separate revenue streams dedicated to specific programs and agencies, like the MTA.

President Donald Trump has vowed to cut off all funding to «sanctuary cities» like New York that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities, while GOP leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have long sought to slash federal spending across the board.

During a sit - down with the Daily News editorial board, Clinton railed against a $ 90 - million funding cut to federal anti-terror funding for New York.

The federal government's across - the - board spending cuts known as the sequester are set to kick in Friday, barring an agreement between Congress and the president.

A source close to the negotiations said that all three sides were close to agreement on a mechanism that would allow the state to respond to a drop in federal Medicaid funding by initially trying to find a legislative solution or, if one could not be reached, empowering the executive branch to make an across - the - board cut to service providers to make up the shortfall.

The mandatory days off without pay were ordered by the Secretary of Defense as a result of the across the board federal budget cuts known as sequestration.

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 pay cuts come a month after mandatory across - the - board spending cuts went into effect after the White House and lawmakers couldn't agree on a deal to cut the federal deficit.

If Congress spends more than the limits, it automatically triggers across - the - board spending cuts under the federal sequester process and deeper cuts to the military.

The senator said it appears CUNY appears to be exempt from the across - the - board cuts that will be necessary if the $ 1.1 billion worth of federal Medicaid funding isn't forthcoming, while SUNY will not.

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

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One misconception, Hourihan said, is the erroneous belief that sequestration — across - the - board cuts to federal agencies first enacted in 2013 — started the recent slowdown in science funding.

Then came Hurricane Katrina, which damaged shuttle facilities in Mississippi and Louisiana, and an acrossthe - board federal budget cut, largely to raise money for the Iraq War.

Should graduate students and postdocs hoping for careers — or even jobs — in academe be exploring other options because of the uncertainties created by the across - the - board federal funding cuts known as sequestration?

But the picture that does emerge so far is one of an Administration seeking to substantially scale back the size of the federal science and technology enterprise nearly across the board — in some cases, through agency - level cuts not seen in decades.

The «it» is sequestration — $ 85 billion worth of across - the - board federal spending cuts that are due to start kicking in at the end of Friday unless Republican and Democratic leaders somehow bridge their differences.

Although officials from the 4,000 districts nationwide that receive federal impact - aid funds have been outspoken in their opposition to cuts in the program recommended by the Reagan Administration, the Fairfax school board was the first in the country to threaten military families with tuition charges to make up for the lost support.

When it began to look last month as if the federal budget would be cut across the board, the education community switched on its computers.

«A 10 percent, across - the - board cut may make you feel great,» says former Virginia and Florida state chief Gerard Robinson, «but who's responsible when there's a problem with a federal grant?»

The President's budget would cut federal education programs across the board and use the money to spend about $ 400 million to expand charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools, and offer another $ 1 billion to push public schools to favor charter and private schools.

A more visible presence in Congress and in the federal courts produced tangible results in strengthening the federal E-rate program, winning school boards relief from onerous federal mandates in school meal programs, and reversing some of the across - the - board budget cuts that hurt federal education programs.

COSA's 2017 Seminar Committee, under the leadership of COSA Board member Pilar Sokol, New York State School Boards Association, has put together a star - studded program packed with crucial issues school attorney have addressed for fifty years, like religion, free speech, federal regulation, and student rights, as well as cutting - edge operational issues like web accessibility and school technology.

Take advantage of this month's congressional recess to meet with your federal lawmakers, inform them about sequestration's severe consequences on local schools, and urge them to repeal the across - the - board cuts.

Superintendent John Deasy and School Board members Steve Zimmer and Monica Ratliff flew to Washington D.C. last week, not for a relaxing getaway but to meet with lawmakers to discuss the impact of federal budget cuts is having on the district.

LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy and two board members spent a few days in Washington, where they met with officials and lawmakers about the impact of federal budget cuts on the district.

This is the first budget since Congress enacted a series of sweeping, across - the - board cuts to just about every federal program, including many in the U.S. Department of Education.

Recent issues of Capitol Connection have reported on the potentially devastating effects of sequestration, the across - the - board cuts to education and other federal programs set in motion by the congressional budget impasse last fall.

Sequestration — deep, across - the - board cuts to nearly all federal spending — is a major component of the triple - threat fiscal cliff, which also includes the expiration of both the Bush - era tax cuts and the temporary payroll tax holiday.

The announcement, which came in the form of a memo (PDF) sent on Friday to chief state school officers from Deputy Secretary of Education Anthony Miller, is a shocking development for education experts and political observers who, up to now, believed that all federal education programs would be subject to a devastating 8.4 percent across - the - board cut beginning in January 2013.

Without congressional action, funding for nearly every federal activity, including all education programs, will be cut by about 8 percent across the board starting January 2.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the San Diego Unified School District calls on the U.S. Congress to remove the funding freeze for reauthorized ESEA programs that would severely cut services over the next six years, and urges the passage of a modernized version of ESEA that is fully supported by federal investments in Title I, which has been woefully underfunded for decades.

The SNA Executive Board founded the PAC on the heels of the 1981 federal budget crisis that resulted in deep cuts in federal child nutrition program budgets.

Many other programs are cut back, including the Federal Impact Aid for children who are on federal land or Indian reservations and the School Improvement Grants which go to local school boards or LEAs for improvFederal Impact Aid for children who are on federal land or Indian reservations and the School Improvement Grants which go to local school boards or LEAs for improvfederal land or Indian reservations and the School Improvement Grants which go to local school boards or LEAs for improvements.

Failure to meet these limits would trigger automatic, across - the - board cuts to federal benefit programs, including Social Security.

Note that since the income tax is one of the most progressive taxes in the federal system, an across - the - board income tax cut that increases every tax filer's after - tax income by the same percentage would tend to make the overall tax system less progressive, because it would collect proportionally less revenue from one of the most progressive sources.

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Requiring automatic, across - the - board federal budget cuts of 10 %, the sequester was enacted during the bitter debt ceiling negotiations that resulted in passage of the Budget Control Act of 2011.

Speaking at a Brookings Institution conference, the former Speaker of the House argued against making across - the - board cuts to government spending and acknowledged that we need to preserve key federal investments in science and technology research.

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Meanwhile, the U.S. government remains divided on key issues across the board — from the contentious vote to raise the debt ceiling to current debates on how to reduce the $ 14.94 trillion federal debt and cut deficits projected to be more than $ 1 trillion annually.

The March 1 date for implementing across the board federal budget cuts arrived with no action to delay or forestall the cuts.