Sentences with phrase «cut federal subsidies»

The president and Congress should cut federal subsidies that keep the price of insurance in some high - risk zones (flood plains, coastal areas threatened by rising seas, and regions prone to wildfires) artificially — and disastrously — low.

The incoming Congress has opportunities to: cut federal subsidies for large farms by encouraging a progressive return to sustainable, integrated farming; encourage low - carbon electricity options for generating clean power; implement policies that ensure the Internet remains free and open; and ratify the World Health Organization's recommendations on how to reduce tobacco smoking.

Not exact matches

Even if you believe the federal government will keep its promises and won't further shift costs to states (and they recently cut our match rate to its lowest point in 25 years), even advocates for Obamacare admit the federal subsidies are front - loaded and that expansion will eventually cost the states.

That change would have raised revenue to help Republicans offset the losses from the massive rate cuts, and some proponents of it argued that the state and local tax deduction (known as «SALT») amounted to a federal subsidy of high - tax states.

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City Subsidies Grow, Federal Cuts Delayed but Fiscal Challenges Remain for NYC's Public Hospitals

It includes a wave of cuts to benefit programs such as Medicaid, federal employee pensions, welfare benefits and farm subsidies.

The ad accuses Slaughter of a voting for a slew of tax increases, including the so - called «cap and trade» emissions measure and trots out the frequent Republicant talking point that the 2010 federal health care bill cuts $ 716 billion for Medicare, which is actually spread out over 10 years and targets subsidies to insurance companies.

The Federal Government has made known its intention to cut subsidies on petroleum products by half next year after sharp falls in global crude prices led...

A federal judge hammered an attorney for California over the state's push for a court order immediately reinstating «Obamacare» subsidies cut off by the Trump administration, saying California and other states had protected consumers from the loss of the funding.

The proposed cuts include $ 269.78 billion from energy programs, including $ 158.7 billion of fossil fuel subsidies; $ 167.09 billion of agricultural subsidies, including $ 89.82 billion of federal crop insurance disaster aid; $ 212.02 billion of transportation subsidies, including $ 125.80 billion of general revenue transfers to the Highway Trust Fund; $ 101.8 billion of federal flood, crop and nuclear insurance subsidies; and $ 24.99 billion from wasteful or environmental damaging public lands and water projects.

So the end of ARRA means not just the end of special federal subsidies but also the end of ARRA's budget - cutting restrictions.

The cuts to Head Start and to subsidies for school districts that serve families working at federal facilities, like Naval Base San Diego, were to take effect Jan. 1.

But since then Congress has cut the lender subsidies several times, redirecting most of the savings to increases in federal student aid.

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If however the central focus of the administration and Congress is to make significant cuts in discretionary spending, there might be pressure to look at phasing out all federal energy subsidies (both fossil and renewable sources).

In addition to his opposition to meaningful action to reduce global warming pollution, Paul Ryan's budget called for «drastic cuts in federal spending on energy research and development and for the outright elimination of subsidies and tax breaks for wind, solar power and other alternative energy technologies.»

The cost of annual federal fossil fuel production subsidies is equivalent to the projected 2018 budget cuts from Trump's proposals to slash 10 public programs and services that benefit some of the nation's most vulnerable children and families.

The reason: The federal government has failed to cut subsidies for solar energy fast and strong enough.

A long - term Republican budget plan released this week by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin calls for drastic cuts in federal spending on energy research and development and for the outright elimination of subsidies and tax breaks for wind, solar power and other alternative energy technologies.

Hence, if you want to change directions, you have to influence the politics — you have to work to prevent the Koch Brothers from destroying California renewable energy initiatives, you have to work to eliminate federal subsidies and liability caps for fossil fuel projects (which would mean that oil drillers would have to post $ 10 billion bonds for every deepwater project they initiated), and — for academic scientists — you have to lobby your academic administrators to cut their ties with shady fossil fuel interests like BP and Exxon, and work to open renewable energy research institutes at America's leading universities.

Indeed, given federal budget concerns, not to mention the urgency of climate change, President Obama tried to cut back subsidies during his first term.

This strategy protects most consumers from the impact of the federal government cutting off CSR funding, since it ultimately just results in larger premium subsidies (premium subsidies are based on the cost of the second - lowest - cost silver plan in each area, so as silver plan premiums rise, so do subsidies).

Although the Trump Administration has cut off funding for cost - sharing reductions, the impact of this (higher premiums — particularly for silver plans — in nearly every state) will be mostly borne by the federal government, in the form of larger premium subsidies.

Meanwhile, the federal EV tax credit in the US narrowly survived being cut out of the recent tax bill, and renewable energy (and the subsidies for it) has fresh opposition in the highest levels of the government after the 2016 election.

The Section 8 provision, part of the VA / HUD appropriations bill (see below), cuts costs by lowering the amount of rent subsidies paid by the government; it protects tenants and owners by allowing owners to restructure their mortgages to lower their monthly payments; and it allows HUD to terminate contracts with owners who've egregiously violated federal requirements.