Sentences with phrase «election year debt»

The DCCC and NRCC both head into the election year debt - free.

Not exact matches

Another concern is the results of last weekend's regional elections, the worst showing in thirty years for Spain's ruling party, and the risk that this will lead to the discovery of higher debts accumulating on the part of Spain's municipalities.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- House Republicans and Democrats reached a rare, election - year deal with the White House to try to rescue Puerto Rico from $ 70 billion in debt as millions of Americans in the cash - strapped U.S. territory struggle with the loss of basic...

After the debt ceiling fiasco in the summer of last year, Obama and his political team all but abandoned governing and subordinated everything to the imperatives of winning the 2012 election.

Particularly since by the time the three months are up, we will be getting into 2018 which is an election year — Democrats hope that they will do well in those elections, and if they do, it will be useful for them to not have the debt ceiling to worry about.

That the Conservatives are ahead in framing the election year can be seen in how often ministers seem forced to contest Tory narratives — a debt crisis, the broken society, or the (ludicrous) idea that Labour has declared «class war».

[48] Shortly before the 2010 election, Osborne had pledged to be «tougher than Thatcher» on Britain's budget deficit, [49] and he duly set himself the target of reducing the UK's deficit to the point that, in the financial year 2015 — 16, total public debt would be falling as a proportion of GDP.

He revealed that this debt had accumulated over the years, particular «in 2016, an election year, where most of it was accumulated.»

«When we started last January our plan was to spend the off - year on debt retirement and then spend the election year raising for the campaigns.»

The bulk of the debt — $ 125,000 — is owed to former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, who is a Jacobs ally (Jacobs, remember, is also the Nassau County Democratic chairman, and hasn't exactly been doing too well in local elections over the past two years).

The so - called «regular» Senate Democrats entered this election cycle at a financial disadvantage, trailing the Republicans by several million dollars, though — for the first time in years — they were debt free.

Senate Democrats also fear the political consequences of embracing new debt in an election year.

The Democratic candidate said he believed the election would hinge on job creation as well as the debt ceiling and touted his 20 years of experience in public finance, state banking regulation and the City Council's Finance Committee to argue he is the best candidate to replace Weiner, who resigned amid a sexting scandal.

In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment, extend injustice and flatlining incomes, sustain or worsen private debt, and deepen the balance - of - payments, productivity, housing and poverty deficits.

He lost a job, failed in business twice, was defeated in elections eight times, became bankrupt and incurred a debt which took nearly seventeen years to be repaid, suffered a nervous breakdown and was bed ridden for six months and he had to deal with the loss of the woman he deeply loved (Anne Rutledge).

Doomsayers have pointed to any number of reasons in recent years why they believed the market was headed for a downturn: Standard & Poor's downgrading of U.S. Treasury debt in 2011; the growth - slowdown scare in China that sent stock prices down 12 % in the summer of 2015; Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, both of which were supposed to be catalysts for a market rout.

I would rather prefer to invest in debt mutual funds, hoping bond yields to fall once the economy stabilizes post next year's elections.

However, once the election is done I think somewhere in the next couple of years the global economy will be forced to confront the growing problem of debt that we have collectively been kicking down the road for the past decade.

At a time when Puerto Rico's crippling debt has forced difficult conversations about its ambiguous relationship with the U.S., in an election year that sees anti-Latino rhetoric running high, the way in which colonial history can disappear into the woodwork is made literal in Soto's ornate yet understated installation.

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Immediately after the 2016 election, investors sold government debt en masse, causing the 10 - year yield to rise from 1.88 percent on November 8 to 2.60 percent five weeks later.

Among the real estate provisions included in the «extenders» package are tax relief for mortgage debt forgiveness, 15 - year cost recovery for qualified leasehold improvements, election to expense certain qualified real property,...