Sentences with phrase «discretionary budget»

The majority of the savings from the automatic spending reductions would stem from further cuts in discretionary spending (beyond those embodied in the new law's caps on discretionary budget authority).

-- Spending $ 1.5 trillion on federal tax cuts and squeezing the overall federal discretionary budget while also threatening key programs that the MTA is relying on to fund upgrades and expansions.

I have a limited discretionary budget that can go toward books.

The Administration attempted to supplement this relatively unambitious discretionary budget by proposing an additional $ 4.2 billion in mandatory funding for nondefense R&D, but Congress quickly rejected these collective mandatory proposals.

The House measure, approved by an appropriations subcommittee last week, would inch up the current discretionary budget for the Department of Education by $ 118 million, to a total of $ 56.7 billion, or by less than 1 percent, in fiscal 2006.

The agency's discretionary budget request in 2012 will dip to $ 5.89 billion, down from $ 6.47 billion in 2010.

«The Trump administration's proposed budget would cripple the science and technology enterprise through short - sighted cuts to discovery science programs and critical mission agencies alike,» said Holt in a statement issued after the White House released its fiscal 2018 discretionary budget plan on March 16.

President Donald Trump's discretionary budget proposal would «cripple» the leading role the United States plays in advancing science and technology and blunt the economic benefits the nation reaps from such innovations, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Also, the CBO baseline assumes that Congress sticks to current discretionary budget caps.

Today, the Department of Education has the third - largest discretionary budget of any department, following the Departments of Defense and Department of Health and Human Services.

EPA's total discretionary budget would be subject to a substantial cut of $ 2.4 billion or 30 percent below last year's enacted levels.

Movements in science agency budgets tend to reflect what's happening with the overall discretionary budget.

FCi Federal goes after federal contracts that are funded not by the general discretionary budget — the one House Republicans and the Democratic Senate could not agree on — but from money the government collects for providing certain public services.

With mandatory spending and interest costs growing rapidly, there is little room for growth in the defense or non-defense discretionary budgets.

This amount is almost double the entire discretionary budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, even before considering other housing tax breaks like the property tax deduction and the $ 500,000 exclusion for gains on home sales.

By 2023, the final year included in President Trump's budget request, military spending would make up 65 percent of the federal discretionary budget, compared to 54 percent in 2018.

CVH has worked with a range of partners, including Council Members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan), Eric Ulrich (R - Queens) and Jumaane D. Williams (D - Brooklyn), as well as The Participatory Budgeting Project, and many other city - wide and local partners to facilitate a new process for city determines how the city identifies and prioritizes discretionary budgeting decisions.

The revised AAAS analysis (contained in Appendix B) reduces projected discretionary budget authority by the same amounts in FY 2001 and 2002.

CBO's outlook presents such a set of more realistic assumptions, in which discretionary budget authority simply rises by 2.6 percent in FY 2020 and thereafter.

Bottom Line: The total NOAA discretionary budget increases by $ 234 million or 4.1 percent in FY 2018 (see Funding Table linked above).

The majority of basic research spending comes from the nondefense discretionary budget.

The school has a small discretionary budget, Martin said, and she needed to be convinced that it was wise to use some of that money on new technology.

As we can see, out of the $ 1.15 trillion discretionary budget request for this year, a staggering 59 % or $ 679 billion is for military spending.

The zeroing out of funds in the Council's discretionary budget for fiscal 2017 follows last week's arrest of Simon Wiesenthal Center board member Murray Huberfeld, who was accused of paying a bribe to land a $ 20 million investment from the city correction officers» union for his hedge fund.

It will be up to Congress to decide what aspects of the president's discretionary budget plan to accept or reject as it works through spending bills for fiscal 2018, Holt noted.

And Trump's fiscal 2018 discretionary budget proposal, which would slash agency funding, would «gut» agency science, he said.

In nominal dollars, the base discretionary budget would rise to $ 1.067 trillion in FY 2016, good for a 5.2 percent increase from FY 2015, and split evenly between defense and nondefense.

«The Department of Veterans Affairs, the Education Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Labor Department have among the largest discretionary budgets in the government.»

As education scholars Bill Evers and Vicki Alger note at Intellectual Takeout, «Trump wants to reduce the U.S. Department of Education's discretionary budget by $ 9.2 billion, from $ 68.3 billion to $ 59.1 billion.»

Oversight of air traffic control would move from the federal government to an independent group under the proposals, which include a 13 % cut for the Department of Transportation's discretionary budget.

«Republicans always wanted to raise spending on defense, Democrats wanted to raise spending on the rest of the discretionary budget across the board, and Republicans supported increased spending on a lot of those line items as well.»

So if you're not going to do that, you're doing all of the cutting within the discretionary budget of the government.

As well, Flaherty is committing to keep spending of his discretionary budget at basically zero — in real terms even below zero — for the next three years.

«They want exclusive offerings and a good reason to spend their discretionary budgets.»

This discretionary budget item is totally up to you.

And while the Trump administration would like to slash the USDA's discretionary budget, which includes funding for the WIC program (nutrition assistance for women, infants and young children), the White House apparently remains committed to funding WIC for now.

Among other proposals, the budget would slash of one - third of Environmental Protection Agency's discretionary budget, totally eliminate the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, and end the grants that currently fund food assistance to the elderly via Meals on Wheels.

These child nutrition programs, like the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs and the Summer Nutrition Programs, are federal entitlement programs and are not part of the president's proposal for the discretionary budget.

Because discretionary funds are based on the number of students on the free and reduced lunch program, Northside College Prep High School's discretionary budget is smaller than most schools in Chicago.

Only 30 percent of its students are on the lunch program; its discretionary budget is $ 190,000.

Oddo pledged $ 5 million from his discretionary budget and began two years of meetings with Mayor de Blasio's office and the Parks Department.

More than 1,800 residents of council District 8 voted on how to spend a portion of the funds from Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito's discretionary budget.

Can't wait to see their «Discretionary Budget is for this year, you know the one that lets Cuomo dispense millions like it's his to give away.

As explained elsewhere, the size of the discretionary budget is a big determinant of the science budget, because it determines how much Congress is able to divvy up among various agencies and priorities each year.

In a vacuum, many policymakers would probably be fine with increased spending on many priorities in the discretionary budget, including R&D.