Sentences with phrase «federal agencies cut»

In fact, they often face retaliation, as he did when District and federal agencies cut his research funding and tried to discredit his research.

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A number of sensible voices in Washington, though, are warning that American hasn't yet felt the brunt of the 2013 sequester because many of those cuts haven't even begun to affect federal agencies» actual outlays in many cases.

Small business is the designated beneficiary of President Trump's executive order, signed yesterday, that requires federal agencies to cut two regulations for every new one issued.

During this period, the Federal Reserve tried to support employment by cutting its federal funds rate target nearly to zero; by creating a number of special liquidity facilities to support the extension of credit; and by engaging in a large scale asset purchase program, buying Treasuries, agency debt and agency mortgage - backed secuFederal Reserve tried to support employment by cutting its federal funds rate target nearly to zero; by creating a number of special liquidity facilities to support the extension of credit; and by engaging in a large scale asset purchase program, buying Treasuries, agency debt and agency mortgage - backed secufederal funds rate target nearly to zero; by creating a number of special liquidity facilities to support the extension of credit; and by engaging in a large scale asset purchase program, buying Treasuries, agency debt and agency mortgage - backed securities.

By 2015, the Harper government will have imposed permanent budget cuts of at least 10.8 billion dollars per year to federal departments and agencies.

The Harper government has provided no detailed information on how the cuts will be implemented within each federal department and agency.

In a gesture of solidarity with federal workers who are being affected by the sequester, the White House announced that President Barack Obama will be giving back 5 % of his salary — the approximate amount of pay being cut from nondefense federal agencies.

Because of lower - than - expected federal assistance for Medicaid, Albany instituted an across - the - board budget sweep of 1.1 percent, cutting state spending and also siphoning off theoretically separate revenue streams dedicated to specific programs and agencies, like the MTA.

The housing agency has for many years been saddled with an unfathomably large backlog of capital needs because of federal funding cuts, among other reasons.

FEMA Grants: The Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint would cut grant assistance to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (herein referred to as «FEMA») by twenty - five percent (25 %) nationwide.

Review Federal Regulations for Repeal — Vote Passed (240 - 185, 4 Not Voting) The measure would establish a commission to review existing federal regulations and identify those that should be repealed in order to reduce costs on the U.S. economy — including those that should be repealed immediately and those that should be repealed over time through a new regulatory «cut - go» system under which agencies could not issue new rules unless the cost of a new rule was offset by repealing existing rules identified by the commFederal Regulations for Repeal — Vote Passed (240 - 185, 4 Not Voting) The measure would establish a commission to review existing federal regulations and identify those that should be repealed in order to reduce costs on the U.S. economy — including those that should be repealed immediately and those that should be repealed over time through a new regulatory «cut - go» system under which agencies could not issue new rules unless the cost of a new rule was offset by repealing existing rules identified by the commfederal regulations and identify those that should be repealed in order to reduce costs on the U.S. economy — including those that should be repealed immediately and those that should be repealed over time through a new regulatory «cut - go» system under which agencies could not issue new rules unless the cost of a new rule was offset by repealing existing rules identified by the commission.

In 2016, as federal investigators dug into allegations that de Blasio traded favors for political donations, a senior official at a city agency at the center of the probe was demoted and given a sharp pay cut.

Trump's first budget for the federal government is a blueprint that would make deep cuts in the Environmental Protection Agency and other domestic programs while significantly increasing spending on the military.

President Trump will instruct federal agencies today to assemble a budget for the coming fiscal year that includes sharp increases in Defense Department spending and drastic enough cuts to domestic agencies that he can keep his promise to leave Social Security and Medicare alone.

He's threatened to cut federal funding for cities, like Syracuse, that don't detain immigrants accused of crimes long enough for federal agencies to deport them.

Turner said that if it were up to him, he would cut federal spending by 35 percent — including gutting the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and slashing the budget of the U.S. Department of Education — which he said would take about seven to 10 years to accomplish.

The federal budget proposal would cut about $ 2.9 trillion to human services programs, including to 13 Suffolk agencies.

In 2016, as federal investigators dug into allegations that Mayor Bill de Blasio traded favors for political donations, a senior official at a city agency at the center of the probe was demoted and given a sharp pay cut.

Cathy Pennington, NYCHA's Executive Vice President for Leased Housing, told the Observer the agency has converted 3,500 of the former city and state - run units to Section 8 to date and suggested federal cuts to HUD are to blame for the slow conversion rate.

That proposal called for the elimination of 19 federal agencies and would cut funding locally for programs like Meals on Wheels, heating assistance programs and arts and culture organizations.

NYCHA, which manages 178,000 apartments in 334 buildings, for years has been criticized for mismanagement and poor living conditions, and de Blasio lamented that the agency is also suffering from cuts in federal funds.

Sources say the erroneous report so angered Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta and his top military and police leaders that they complained bitterly to the U.S. Ambassador in Nairobi and cut off communication with the State Department and various federal law enforcement agencies in Africa that were assisting the investigation, sources said.

The deal came together barely three hours before the midnight deadline, after negotiators cleared two final hurdles involving the estate tax and automatic spending cuts set to affect the Pentagon and other federal agencies this week.

After the Senate's bipartisan 91 - to - 9 vote in a favor of a bill that keeps federal agencies open through March 18 while enacting $ 4 billion in new spending cuts, Mr. Obama urged House and Senate leaders to meet with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and two top aides to work out a longer - term budget agreement.

To make up for a federal deficit of more than $ 400 billion, the White House has ordered most civilian research agencies to prepare for major budget reductions in the 2006 budget, including cuts for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Strict air quality regulations set by federal, state and regional agencies protect residents» health, she said, and the company has made significant efforts to cut its emissions.

«Steep funding cuts for the federal health agencies are counterproductive at a time when innovative research is moving us closer to identifying solutions for rare diseases, new prevention strategies to protect Americans from deadly and costly conditions, advances in gene therapy, new technologies for understanding the brain, and treatments that harness the ability of our immune system to fight cancer.»

BUDGET BLUEPRINT The Trump administration's budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 calls for sharp cuts to many federal science agencies and programs.

That level could end up being a cut, however, after Congress completes work on a bill to fund federal agencies through 2018.

One misconception, Hourihan said, is the erroneous belief that sequestration — across - the - board cuts to federal agencies first enacted in 2013 — started the recent slowdown in science funding.

She said much of the federal scientific research and data comes from multiple agencies working together, so cutting one will have a ripple effect.

Trump's draconian budget request — which suggested drastic cuts to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), among others — was rejected by Congress, and a spending bill that increases funding for science at many federal agencies was signed into law.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- empowered by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) of 1974 (and amended in 1986 and 1996) to set national safety standards — has urged communities since 1996 to cut back on chlorine, which produces harmful by - products when added to water, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agents.

In preparing budgets that will soon be delivered to Congress for the next fiscal year, federal civilian agencies have been guided by a White House directive to cut spending.

Just days after the midterm elections, a report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a related story in The New York Times examined what would happen to federal science agencies if the GOP carried through on their planned budget cuts.

Last week, a coalition of universities and professional societies warned legislators working on the defense bill that «a mandatory increase in the SBIR - STTR allocation across federal agencies will result in funding cuts for investigator initiated, peer - reviewed grants that are the cornerstone of the nation's research enterprise.

Representative Harold Rogers (R - KY), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, is proposing deep budget cuts in some agencies as part of an overall Republican plan to trim federal spending.

Separate spending bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate would spare both agencies from the severe cuts forecast next year for most federal agencies in the wake of last summer's budget agreement between Congress and the White House and a budget resolution approved earlier this month by the House.

(A Senate panel approved a bill that would erase this year's sequester cut and give the agency $ 30.95 billion in 2014, but the House of Representatives, which has not released its version of the bill, has proposed cuts to the overall federal spending that could translate into another $ 5 billion cut for NIH, according to an analysis by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.)

The forests will need «active management,» they write, noting that due to federal budget cuts, park management agencies must manage larger areas with fewer resources.

Needed: a strategy to promote resilience Compiling a list of suggestions, they push federal agencies to «make resilience a core aspect of all federal infrastructure and disaster - recovery funding» to strengthen affordable housing; ask for federal leaders to expand funding for programs, such as the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, so at - risk municipalities can develop disaster plans and assess their vulnerabilities; and boost economic stability by opposing cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, so families can afford to eat after a disaster.

In the piece Zuber and Holt wrote, «Federal agencies, with bipartisan support, are the primary investor of cutting - edge basic research that fuels industry's ability to harness that knowledge into innovative products and business.

In response, the 24 federal agencies that conduct research — from the Department of Defense to the U.S. Department of Agriculture — slowed the pace of lab work, instituted hiring freezes and cut grant programs.

The Trump budget would cut $ 5.8 billion from NIH's current funding level of $ 31.7 billion in the stopgap congressional funding measure that funds most federal agencies through 28 April.

One «lower priority» activity that will be cut is funding for new acquisitions of federal lands, an interest of multiple DOI agencies, including BLM, FWS, and NPS.

It calls for deep cuts to some federal science agencies (read our initial coverage to get some of the numbers), and is likely to draw fierce opposition from the scientific community and many lawmakers in Congress.

But the picture that does emerge so far is one of an Administration seeking to substantially scale back the size of the federal science and technology enterprise nearly across the board — in some cases, through agency - level cuts not seen in decades.

Overall, the deal staves off major cuts for federal science agencies that Trump had requested last month.

While NASA's $ 200 million funding reduction pales in comparison to cuts that would face some federal agencies under the proposed budget (which has to be reviewed and approved by Congress before becoming official), it would make significant changes to how those dollars are spent.

If the cuts in the skinny budget had made it into law, they «would've really decimated the federal sciences,» and not just what the agencies do themselves, but in academia as well «because that's where the grants come from,» Shultz, said.