Sentences with phrase «discretionary budget item»

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Then they doubled that number, following the 50-30-20 budgeting rule of 50 percent for necessities, 30 percent for discretionary items and 20 percent for savings.

«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.»

Wow, Gregory, I didn't realize I sounded ugly and elitist when I advocated insuring coverage for those who truly need it (i.e, those with low wages, pre-existing medical conditions, etc.) What I am questioning is whether or not there are many who CHOSE to not find a way to fit an insurance premium into their budget yet manage to pay for other items that I consider discretionary expenditures.

The FY 2012 budget records that Wills made a $ 28,000 allocation to YLI in 2011, his largest single discretionary line item.

Tedisco's bill requires all member items, discretionary funds, and so - called «lump sum payments», which are controlled by the Speaker of the Assembly, Senate Majority Leader and Governor and negotiated in many instances behind closed doors, be made public and fully transparent within the state budget.

Senate Republicans entered budget negotiations with a wish list of more than a dozen items to benefit the charter school sector, but in the end they settled for $ 54 million in additional funding for charter schools paid for by the state Senate out of its discretionary fund and a renewal of some of the previous budget's pro-charter policies.

Mr. de Blasio, despite his repeated vows to end the member item system, also confirmed that council members would have discretionary funding that they can dole out to favored groups in the new budget.

Asked at a 9 February budget briefing to explain how agencies decided which programs would be funded with discretionary spending and which with mandatory spending, presidential science adviser John Holdren said that «the mandatory items were those that were both high priority and for which pay - fors could be readily identified.»

The money for «discretionary» items that's left over — including R&D — is expected to drop to 23 % of the federal budget by 2040, down from 67 % in 1970 and 36 % in 2012.

Child care expenses and the needs of low - income families with children are also addressed by a number of direct federal programs that are funded through line item discretionary or mandatory budgets.

However, the most recent recovery is accompanied by rising costs in healthcare, corrections, and sustained efforts to maintain support for K - 12 education, leaving higher education as the largest discretionary item in many state budgets.

As discretionary items in the budget, higher education and health care absorbed shortfalls.

We could probably go without a budget now, but we'd still be using our cash limits we've placed on «discretionary» spending items.

Most students are not keeping a budget and tend to overspend when it comes to discretionary spending (40 % of student income goes to discretionary items such as entertainment, apparel, services, travel, vacation).

They are among the discretionary items for which spending could be cut 22 percent or more under the Republican budget plan, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorbudget plan, according to the Center on Budget and Policy PriorBudget and Policy Priorities.

Respondents were presented 31 of the major line items of the discretionary federal budget with a description of each one, the amount budgeted for 2015, and the projected deficit.

Moylan J made it clear that the wife in AR was entitled to have sufficient resources to enable her to spend on additional discretionary items, which would vary from year to year and which were not reflected in her budget.