Sentences with phrase «budget by billions of dollars»

Anyone who is even thinking about supporting the New York City Democrats would be well served to remember what they did the last time time they controlled our entire state government ---- enacting 124 different tax and fee increases totaling $ 14 billion, overshooting the budget by billions of dollars and pitting one region of the state against another.

Not exact matches

By 2015, the Harper government will have imposed permanent budget cuts of at least 10.8 billion dollars per year to federal departments and agencies.

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said the destruction wrought by Harvey underscores «the need for good government,» and shows «the president is just wrong with his budget,» in which Trump proposed slashing billions of dollars from federal agencies.

«Today's announcement by Governor Cuomo is an encouraging first step,» Gianaris said in a statement, «but significant questions remain regarding the source of this new capital funding and the continuing budget hole of several billions of dollars beyond the amount announced today.»

BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER When Christopher O. Ward became executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in May 2008, the buildings at the World Trade Center site under the Port Authority's jurisdiction were years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget.

«Today's announcement by Governor Cuomo is an encouraging first step, but significant questions remain regarding the source of this new capital funding and the continuing budget hole of several billions dollars beyond the amount announced today.

After presenting a budget that cuts Medicaid, food stamps and other safety net programs by billions of dollars, the White House went to Capitol Hill Wednesday to defend its proposal.

The GEA was first passed by the New York State Legislature in 2010, when the state faced billion - dollar budget deficits because of the recession.

Revenues from the ongoing Wall Street rally will be a «bright spot» heading into potentially difficult state budget talks complicated by the federal tax overhaul, but New York government leaders shouldn't count on stock market gains to cover a deficit projected to be in the billions of dollars, the state's top fiscal officer said Tuesday.

«There has been a «dumbing down» in education for years and we need Gov. Cuomo to help to reverse it in upstate NY by including the $ 1.9 Billion dollars in the budget to go towards improving the education of our children,» Faust said.

If they fail to reach agreement by Monday, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vowed to introduce legislation that would extend the current budget, a backup plan that would leave out popular proposals to increase college tuition aid or invest billions of dollars in the state's aging water infrastructure.

Economic development funding was often distributed by former governors and legislative leaders when each received a pot of money, sometimes totaling half a billion dollars, as part of the state budget deal.

A state taskforce charged by Gov. Andrew Cuomo with finding Medicaid savings for the 2011 - 2012 budget just overwhelmingly approved a set of proposals to reign in costs and help the state close its $ 10 billion dollar budget gap.

But now, with Webb years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, Dressler says choosing such a big, complex mirror for an already ambitious cryogenic telescope was «a bridge too far,» caused by «trying to make too much innovation in one step.»

[2] However, inflation would erase all of these gains, and the R&D budget in constant dollars would end up about $ 11 billion or eight percent lower than today's levels by FY 2028.

The Budget Bureau's Emerson Elliott, who became acting director of NIE, says it aimed even higher: «it was formulated by Moynihan as a billion dollar agency.»

The lion's share of these ARRA education dollars was appropriated through the new $ 50 billion State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF), a population - based program created to expeditiously replenish education budgets decimated by declining tax revenue.

A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «With rates of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens of billions of dollars are being spent each year by federal nutrition programs aimed at boosting food consumption by the poor.»

Funding for college work - study programs would be cut in half, public - service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Having failed to right the ship of state, Malloy engaged in a desperate attempt to save his political career by telling Connecticut's voters that there was no state budget deficit this year and that he would eliminate the $ 1.4 billion dollar projected budget shortfall for this coming year without having to raise taxes, cut services or seek concessions from the state employee unions.

Cut public education budgets by a couple of billion dollars.

This is the proposal aggressively pushed by a governor who is billions of dollars behind the state's constitutional obligation to fund public schools equitably, who continues to use accounting tricks to cheat school districts out of millions of dollars owed under the already inadequate funding in the state budget, who has restricted districts from increasing revenue locally without a super-majority, and then has the nerve to blame strangled school districts for not raising test scores.

The primary culprit was a long - accumulating budget deficit (totaling $ 1.35 billion), brought on by bureaucratic bloat, inefficiency, and declining school enrollment — which saw more than a quarter of school seats empty and left the district with badly underused buildings in need of millions of dollars in repairs.

Although the fiscal situation of the University is strong, the $ 60 million NCAA penalty, anticipated fines to be imposed by the Department of Education and the direct costs of dealing with the Sandusky mess (> $ 16 million to date) are not zero, even for an institution with a billion dollar budget.

Brulle knew or should have known that his almost - billion - dollar number would be presented by his allies in the media and the environmentalist movement as the budget of the so - called «denial» effort, not as merely the combined budgets of all groups that Brulle labeled, rightly or wrong, as «deniers.»

After billions of research dollars spent and over a decade of trying, the energy budget of planet as measured by CERES and other low - Earth orbit satellite systems is out of whack by about 6 watts per square meter.

Anyone keen on understanding the GOP's key ambitions need look no further than its proposal for the U.S. budget, presented by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R - WI)-- it sets aside tens of billions of dollars in handouts to oil companies while slashing Medicare and aid to thebudget, presented by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R - WI)-- it sets aside tens of billions of dollars in handouts to oil companies while slashing Medicare and aid to theBudget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R - WI)-- it sets aside tens of billions of dollars in handouts to oil companies while slashing Medicare and aid to the poor.

On behalf of the nation's nearly 1400 health centers and the 27 million patients they serve, the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) wants to express our sincere appreciation for the $ 7.8 billion dollars in federal grant funding for the Community Health Center program that was included in the bipartisan budget deal passed by Congress early this morning.