Sentences with phrase «federal aid budget»

Specifically, we could shift some of the federal aid budget to performance - based grants and make the assistance a student receives more conditional on both income and performance.

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The February federal budget deal, meanwhile, hikes outlays in both of the two categories of «discretionary» spending, defense and federal programs from foreign aid to housing subsidies, by an unprecedented 12 %, or $ 150 billion a year in 2018 and 2019.

So this is a terrible time for the US to be signaling that it's seeking to cut foreign aid budget that is already only 0.2 % of US national income, less than 1 % of the federal budget.

Such a cut fits into Trump's «America first» worldview, but is alarming to lawmakers who see diplomacy and foreign aid as a small but crucial component of the federal budget, just more than 1 %.

Meadows also said that he did not expect a major fight over whether the Harvey aid package would be offset with cuts elsewhere in the federal budget.

A senior Democratic aide said the party's position is that emergency spending need not be offset by cuts elsewhere in the federal budget, making Pelosi's statement a challenge to Republicans who have insisted that previous aid packages not add to the federal budget deficit.

Having already extended some aid to the ailing auto and financial sectors, the federal government has hinted it may toss miners a lifeline as well when it tables its next budget on Jan. 27.

He heard government leaders talk about balancing the budget by cutting back on the food stamp program, even while they rescued a struggling aircraft corporation with massive federal aid.

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The Cuomo administration has quietly resolved a problem created by a single line in the state's budget that would have held up $ 20 million in federal aid to the state's Conservation Fund.

The two - year budget deal reached in Washington on Friday ensures no draconian cuts in federal aid to the state and city, undercuts arguments to raise some local taxes and portends problems for Cuomo as he exaggerates the impact of Congress's tax bill on New Yorkers.

Syracuse will receive a boost of almost 15 percent in federal aid for affordable housing and community development after Congress spared programs Trump wanted to eliminate in this year's budget.

DiNapoli's state budget report, meanwhile, pointed to a financially rocky road ahead, perhaps as the result of cuts in federal aid to New York State.

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

DiNapoli said more information is needed to address concerns raised during the budget talks, such as potential cuts to federal aid, a premise that drove the governor to successfully receive power over making changes to the budget after it is approved.

Governor Cuomo's budget makes no major change in the Essential Plan — a low - cost state - sponsored health plan — despite the loss of almost $ 1 billion in federal aid.

As Cuomo did in his address, Hochul stressed that New York faces budget challenges in 2018, due to a $ 4 billion state deficit, and as much as $ 2 billion of cuts to federal aid.

There's also a dispute between Sampson and Silver on how to fund what is now expected to be as much as a $ 1 billion shortfall in anticipated federal Medicaid aid, an enormous loss at a time when politically nervous lawmakers are looking to add education funding to the final budget plan.

Cautious in face of an uncertain Washington: Federal aid is 1/3 of State budget (which is 18 % of City budget); 8 - 10 % of City budget; 64 % of NYCHA budget; and nearly half of the Health and Hospitals budget.

The budget is expected to be cut to $ 132.9 billion, a 2.7 percent reduction, a source told the DN — in part because of a loss in federal stimulus aid.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo raises the possibility of an «extender» budget blamed on federal government - level uncertainty over potential cuts in spending to the state, the Fiscal Policy Institute has released a report examining the impact of D.C. aid to New York state and local governments.

The federal government was actually much more generous to New York in those drop - dead days of the 1970s, when more than 20 percent of the city budget came from federal aid.

Extended federal aid will run out in mid-2011, leaving coverage and financial questions to be decided in the state's biennial state budget beginning July 1, 2011, and extending through June 30, 2013.

«Joining 18 other states as finalists for more federal aid is good news, but it won't overshadow the facts that taxes and spending will be going up even more, school property tax bills are being prepared without a state budget in place, and the budget will soon be the latest in history.»

Although less than 9 percent of the city's overall budget is comes from federal aid — excluding Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery and other Hurricane Sandy - related aid — 11 out of more than 40 mayoral agencies that represent 59 percent of total city spending get 92 percent of federal grant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in January.

The budget is expected to be cut to $ 132.9 billion, a 2.7 % reduction, a source said - in part because of a loss in federal stimulus aid.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo decried President Donald Trump's proposed budget, saying it takes a «wrecking ball» to federal agencies that provide needed aid to New Yorkers.

First, the Division of the Budget's (DOB's) authorization to craft a plan if federal Medicaid funding or all other federal aid declines by at least $ 850 million is extended for two more fiscal years.

Already cash - strapped from budget tightening, they'll have to live within a 2 percent property tax cap next year, making federal aid all the more important.

A single sentence in this year's state budget intended to help fund member items was also responsible for holding up roughly $ 20 million in federal aid to the state Conservation Fund, letters from the Cuomo administration's legal counsel show.

Add Rep. Tom Reed to the list of New York Republicans who support House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's call for offsetting additional disaster aid in the wake of Irene with spending cuts elsewhere in the federal budget.

The New York State Educational Conference Board, a coalition of state education organizations, is calling for a $ 2 billion increase in school aid in the 2018 - 19 state budget, despite a looming deficit and uncertainty over federal spending.

De Blasio revealed an $ 82.1 billion preliminary spending plan, including federal and state aid for the coming fiscal year — a $ 3.5 billion overall spending increase from the $ 78.5 billion budget plan approved by the City Council last June for the current fiscal year.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he will try to block Trump from cutting off a top source of federal aid to Syracuse and other cities in the fiscal 2018 budget.

The Democratic governor repeated that recent actions by the Republican - controlled federal government have unsettled him, and that a fear of future cuts to federal aid — the federal budget, if it is adopted on time, takes effect on Oct. 1 — would have an «immediate» effect on New York, which relies on federal funds for roughly a third of its $ 150 - plus billion budget and could get «walloped.»

But the governor also said that the state could use the two - month delay to get a better sense of what could be coming from the federal government as President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress craft their own budget, which is anticipated to result in less aid for New York state — especially in terms of support for its sprawling Medicaid program.

DiNapoli says the new budget relies on $ 4.9 billion in temporary state resources and $ 2.7 billion in federal aid related to Superstorm Sandy and the Affordable Care Act.

Federal economic stimulus aid helped close an estimated $ 162.5 billion in budget gaps among the 50 states in 2010, the report stated, citing a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research budget gaps among the 50 states in 2010, the report stated, citing a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research group.

Early budget plan would strip federal funding from local housing, infrastructure and nutrition programs designed to aid North Country residents, say officials

The 2016 - 17 budget totaled $ 156 billion, which includes $ 9 billion in federal aid for superstorm Sandy and Obamacare.

Cuomo has repeatedly raised concerns with the possibility of federal cuts being imposed on the state that could throw aid out of whack and make budgeting less predictable.

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Cuomo has warned of the potential loss of federal money due to President Donald Trump's proposed budget, leaving the possibility of aid reduction in the middle of the budget year.

Cuomo says it would blow a massive whole in the state budget unless it was chased by additional federal aid.

Yet for the most part, the budget largely did not incorporate major shifts anticipating what could be substantial cuts in federal aid in the coming months or years.

And a majority of the New York City Housing Authority's operating budget, some $ 2 billion out of a $ 3.2 billion budget, is federal aid.

Episode 27 - $ 168.2 billion — Maria Doulis & Dave Friedfel of CBC discuss the Governor's Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2018 - 2019, which includes topics of budget growth, Medicaid, school aid, economic development, and proposals dealing with the changes in the federal taBudget for Fiscal Year 2018 - 2019, which includes topics of budget growth, Medicaid, school aid, economic development, and proposals dealing with the changes in the federal tabudget growth, Medicaid, school aid, economic development, and proposals dealing with the changes in the federal tax law.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking broad new authority to unilaterally hold back promised budget payments if tax money and federal aid don't materialize as expected, an unprecedented move that has sparked concern among state and local officials.

State and federal aid has been flat — Rockland County, particularly the Town of Ramapo, is fiscally stressed due to the property tax cap, making it a formidable challenge to bring the county budget in at less than two percent.

Child protective services could lose half of its $ 247 million budget and almost all of the city's $ 194 million in HIV / AIDS prevention programs is funded by the federal government.