Sentences with phrase «cuts nondefense discretionary spending»
«Further, the president's budget, which cuts nondefense discretionary spending while significantly increasing defense spending eliminates the parity between defense and nondefense spending that has been a hallmark of America's recent fiscal policy.»
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In fact in FY 1996, nondefense discretionary spending was the only category of federal spending that both sides agreed to cut.
While the Trump Administration has proposed deep cuts to nondefense discretionary spending to allow a defense increase, that approach has been widely rejected, if for no other reason than it would require the politically impossible hurdle of 60 votes in the Senate.
«Given an overall cut to nondefense domestic discretionary spending, science programs fared relatively well,» Boehlert noted.
The assorted cuts described above and below are facilitated by changes to the current discretionary spending caps, which dictate the size of annual appropriations each year, and which contain nearly all defense and nondefense science and technology investments.