Sentences with phrase «dollar budget talks»

Washington (CNN)-- Note to anyone watching the high - stakes, trillion - dollar budget talks in Washington: you can take a break from constantly checking for a deal.

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The White House budget director came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell President Donald Trump's budget, but the administration's allies in the Senate preferred to talk about last year's tax cut rather than the trillion - dollar deficits contained in the new spending plan.

The short take is: We are talking about trillions of dollars that aren't covered in the official budget, most of which hits the treasury market like any other form of debt.

What incentive do the Senate Republicans have to play ball during the upcoming budget talks, which all sides agree are going to be challenging due to a growing multibillion - dollar deficit, if the governor has already signaled whose side he'll be on in the rematch for control of the chamber next fall?

A sticking point in the budget talks is emerging between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers over the control of hundreds of millions of dollars in economic development spending that would benefit western New York as well as the regional economic development councils.

As Cuomo and lawmakers seek to wrap up budget negotiations this week, a state appeals court threw a $ 69 million wrench into the talks, lifting a stay that allowed the state to hold off from releasing millions of dollars that were earmarked for failing schools but has been tied up in litigation.

Revenues from the ongoing Wall Street rally will be a «bright spot» heading into potentially difficult state budget talks complicated by the federal tax overhaul, but New York government leaders shouldn't count on stock market gains to cover a deficit projected to be in the billions of dollars, the state's top fiscal officer said Tuesday.

ALBANY — Just a day before the deadline for a new multibillion - dollar spending plan, negotiations over the final pieces of the New York State budget slowed to a crawl on Friday, as Democrats in the Assembly effectively blamed a Brooklyn senator for holding up talks over a provision that would ease state oversight of religious schools.

He also reflects on the Governor's first year in office and talks about some of the challenges in the year ahead including a potential multi-billion dollar budget deficit.

Indeed, he spent a lot of time in his campaign talking about participatory budgeting, an innovation introduced by Council newcomers from recent election cycles who invite constituents to help plan the allocation of member item dollars each district receives.

While some politicians talk about reducing the cost of government, my plan actually shrinks the county government budget in real dollars.

Barry Jenkins turned a 1.5 million dollar budget into the zeitgeist film of the year with Moonlight and his follow up, If Beale Street Could Talk, hopes to double down on that success.

It's like when reviewers talk about a $ 200 million dollar movie and debate about whether it's worth that big budget.

You may talk about how you worked on a 100 million dollar project, you were responsible for a team of 15 and the project came in under schedule and under budget and by how much.

So in an era of record ten and twenty billion dollar budget surplus on top of record budget surplus, we are not talking big sums to close this particular divide.

So I keep talking about doing this project on a tight budget, with the goal being zero dollars.