Sentences with phrase «budget was dead on arrival»

Seasoned observers noted that, whatever its merits or defects, Trump's budget was dead on arrival in Congress.

Lending his voice on the need for its withdrawal was a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator representing Abia south, Eyinnaya Abaribe, as he said the budget was dead on arrival.

«We know what is going on in the global economy: this budget is predicated on an oil benchmark of $ 38 per barrel and I can now say that with oil being $ 28 today, this budget is dead on arrival.

But Congress has already said the President's budget is dead on arrival.

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pushes back on the notion that President Trump's budget proposal is dead on arrival as the bill makes its way to Capitol Hill.

Therefore, the 2018 budget is already dead on arrival.»

He disagreed with senators on the issue of padding of the 2018 Appropriation Bill, saying there was no such thing as padding in the budget, as the proposals were documents which could be seen as dead on arrival.

While congressional Republicans have said much of President Donald Trump's proposed budget are «dead on arrival» on Capitol Hill, Wisconsin's congressional delegation should keep a fork handy to spear his proposed passenger rail cuts.

Although most media have used the clichéd «dead on arrival» label to describe Obama's 2017 budget request, Congress is still bound by the December 2015 agreement.

(And this after his close colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham (R - SC) declared the pending budget «dead on arrival» in February).

WASHINGTON President Bush's $ 32.3 - billion education budget for fiscal year 1993 has gotten a comparatively positive reception on Capitol Hill and in the education community, where a decade of Republican budgets have routinely been declared «dead on arrival.»

While the President's budget proposal is dead on arrival, it will provide a framework by which the House and Senate could advance deeper cuts than they otherwise would.

Reporters nonetheless have pronounced the budget «dead on arrival,» as Congress is reluctant to increase spending at a time when the country is running a large fiscal deficit.

GOP leadership was quick to call the budget blueprint «dead on arrival» when the administration unveiled it last month, and chairman of the appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Roy Blunt, R - Mo., followed suit at the start of the hearing.