Sentences with phrase «discretionary budget request»

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

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Finance committee chairman Brian Lipke is requesting that County Executive Mark Poloncarz review the budget to identify any discretionary spending that could be reduced.

The city legislature primarily votes on budget matters and requests for discretionary spending, said Peterson.

The discretionary portion of NASA's budget would have shrunk by $ 1 billion under the president's request.

The use of mandatory spending in its 2017 budget request allows the Obama administration to remain within the bounds of the December 2015 agreement — which set discretionary spending at $ 1.070 trillion, only $ 3 billion more than in 2016 — without sacrificing his ambitious plans to invest in all manner of research - related activities.

Although the President's budget requested a 5.5 % increase for EPA's discretionary budget, the House would instead significantly reduce it by 10 % below FY 2015 levels.

The discretionary part of the agency's budget is still subject to OMB approval, so priority setting (for example, in the allocation of staff among activities and divisions) continues to be part of the annual appropriations process.169 Moreover, the President's budget may propose changes to mandatory spending, proposals that OMB has by definition approved.170 At least in the current and previous administrations, OMB has required agencies to submit, as part of their annual budget requests, a description of any effort to take discretionary action that would increase mandatory spending, and has strictly limited its approval of these efforts.171

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.

Had Congress adhered to the White House's budget request, the proposal would have been the largest single - year percentage cut in the department's discretionary budget since President Ronald Reagan's 1983 budget proposal.

The recently agreed upon two - year cap deal includes updates to some of the President's FY 2019 Budget requests for domestic discretionary programs.