Sentences with phrase «federal budget reductions»

Fort Drum may be facing personnel cutbacks as a result of the federal budget reductions known as sequestration.

The sequester cuts, or series of across - the - board federal budget reductions, are split evenly between domestic spending and defense, and at least one New York Congressman is voicing concerns about the latter.

Not exact matches

Through a combination of $ 1 billion from the sale of GM shares, a $ 2 billion reduction in the contingency fund and $ 1.8 billion taken out of Employment Insurance (a holdover from Budget 2014), the federal government was able to turn a modest deficit into a $ 1.4 billion surplus.

The cap for 2014 is $ 967 billion, so lawmakers can either agree on spending reductions that would bring the federal budget under limit, or they can decide they need to spend more and take down the BCA.

In the last federal budget, Natural Resources Canada was allocated $ 2.5 million over the next two years to study regional clean energy cooperation, with the aim of identifying «the most promising electricity infrastructure projects with the potential to achieve significant greenhouse gas reductions.»

There is no doubt that the expenditure reductions undertaken in the 1995 Budget were critical to building credibility and in restoring market confidence in the federal government's commitment to address the fiscal situation.

Past achievements include building the case for deficit reduction in the 1980s and early 1990s, for consolidation of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans in the late 1990s, a series of shadow federal budgets and fiscal accountability reports in that began in the 2000s, and work on marginal effective tax rates on personal incomes and business investment, which has laid the foundation for such key changes as sales tax reform, elimination of capital taxes, and corporate income tax rate reductions.

According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the reduction in the escalator was a major factor in the federal government achieving a sustainable fiscal framework.

But even with that reduction, the federal debt is projected by the Congressional Budget Office to be a staggering $ 26 trillion.

The 2015 federal budget's reduction of the mandatory minimum withdrawals from registered retirement income funds (RRIFs) and similar tax - deferred accounts will reduce the risk that many Canadians will outlive their savings.

The final agreement not only burnishes Cuomo's liberal credentials by extending (though not expanding) the millionaire's tax, raising the age of criminal responsibility of New York and addressing the high cost of college tuition for members of the middle class, it also dramatically increases his (already considerable) budget powers, enabling him to single - handedly make spending cuts in the event of widely expected future federal funding reductions.

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.

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.

Due to the fact many services provided by the County of Erie, State of New York are fully or partially paid for by the federal government, on March 16, 2017 County Executive Mark Poloncarz ordered certain commissioners and heads of departments that rely on federal funding to review the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint and provide a report on the expected impact of it on Erie County services, including, but not limited to, the identification of any programs impacted by the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint (including the expected cut in funds received), possible reduction in direct county jobs as a result of any cut, impact on third parties that receive funds from Erie County that are received from the federal government, as well as any other known impact.

He ignored the recommendations of his own bipartisan deficit reduction commission, proposed a federal budget that was so political it was rejected 97 - 0 by the Senate, reneged on a deficit compromise last summer and went AWOL on the supercommittee deliberations.

Taking that difference into account, and even possible reductions in economic activity (mentioned in Avi's answer), do not exceed projected discretionary spending in coming federal budget years.

On Tuesday, the mayor proposed a new budget of $ 84.7 billion that included more money in the city's reserve accounts in case of federal reductions.

Testimony includes: recommendations for the 2014 - 2015 state fiscal year; review of actual and proposed reductions in human services spending; use of federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funding in the 2014 - 2015 Executive Budget; and, the impact of decline in the purchasing power of the monthly cash assistance grant.

McMahon said an overall reduction in the budget was a certainty after the loss of temporary federal stimulus money and Cuomo's campaign promise of no tax increases.

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.

De Blasio put out an $ 84.67 billion city budget proposal Tuesday, which did not account for any reductions in federal money.

Meanwhile, bracing for potential federal cuts, the new deal specifies that if Congress cuts funding to New York by at least $ 850 million, the governor's budget director will develop a plan to make spending cuts that will automatically go into effect unless the Legislature imposes its own reductions within 90 days.

Others say the Pentagon is simply using the hearings to pressure Congress into rolling back the Budget Control Act of 2011, the law that set federal spending caps in order to achieve a $ 1.2 trillion deficit reduction over 10 years.

Ann Marie Buerkle, a Republican representing the Syracuse area who won her seat last year with Tea Party support, said that disaster relief was a «legitimate role of government» and that it should not be held up by the desire to identify reductions elsewhere in the federal budget.

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.

«We believe such a drastic reduction to OSTP's budget will dramatically inhibit the ability of the federal government to coordinate, prioritize and manage the federal research and development (R&D) effort,» Leshner wrote.

Finding ways to cut energy use has become more critical now that many federal institutions are facing budget cuts in the wake of the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction's failure to reach a cost - cutting agreement.

The reduction, required by the failure of policymakers to abide by the terms of a 2011 law designed to reduce the federal deficit over the next decade, reduced the lab's budget this year by $ 100 million, to $ 1.5 billion.

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.

The administration's FY2018 budget went further, targeting reductions in federal education spending totaling $ 9 billion, which would have amounted to a 13 percent cut in the DOE's $ 68 billion annual budget.

«If a school district has to sustain a major [budget] reduction, they have little alternative than to reduce staff,» said Reginald Felton, the director of federal relations for the Alexandria, Va. - based National School Boards Association.

Considering other reductions for certain federal programs in President Trump's budget blue print, it might be tempting to breathe a sigh of relief that support for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act remained unscathed — not so fast!

As Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa recently observed, the proposed 2017 - 2018 cuts represent the largest proposed reduction to federal education spending «since President Ronald Reagan sought a 35.7 percent cut to the department in his proposed 1983 budget.»

Repurposed federal funds will result in a «reduction in general funding to the schools while having no significant overall impact on school budgets.»

According to the Department, the requested 15 percent reduction would «provide significant resources to support CTE programs while also maintaining the fiscal discipline necessary to support the President's goal of increasing support for national security and public safety without adding to the Federal budget deficit.»

Meanwhile, the deep «sequestration» budget cuts of 2013, which forced automatic reductions on most federal programs, didn't kick in until spring, and mostly affected students the following school year.

While a projected 25 % reduction in the budget deficit for fiscal 2010 - 11 may have given the federal government «wiggle room» to undertake new spending measures beneficial to families and individuals, investors were not so lucky.

According to a report in the Globe and Mail, next week's highly anticipated federal budget should only contain «modest» spending reductions and little to no intervention in the housing market.

Although it was Reagan's promise to downsize the government that led to a reduction in federal housing financing, a bulk of the budget variations have been due to political and financial strife.

In a year fraught with tension over the federal budget and deficit reduction, the White House might have opted to forgo a battle over directed spending.

With Congressional representatives unable to reach any sort of a compromise, the federal budget sequestration process is about to go into full swing, a process that will require reductions in all federal government services and programs, as well as furloughs or layoffs of an estimated 108,000 federal agency employees, according to a Center for Strategic Budgetary Assessments report.

In the US the Office of Management and Budget issued a memo yesterday that will make it easier for US federal government agencies to communicate with citizens and collect feedback from them by way of the Internet and social media: Social Media, Web - Based Interactive Technologies, and the Paperwork Reduction Act.

Severe and indiscriminate federal court budget reductions through sequestration combined with chronically anemic state funding for courts threaten access to justice for every American and put court petitioners, staff and judges in physical jeopardy.

The following reasons / trends are given as to why the EPA is changing the delivery of its library services to the public: - more and more materials are available online and electronically - tighter security at Federal facilities - physical visits by the public to the EPA Headquarters Library are declining - reductions in the Library's FY07 budget

The lower government - wide satisfaction score and the decreases in all 10 workplace issues came during a difficult time for federal employees, who have faced a three - year pay freeze, furloughs, hiring slowdowns and across - the - board budget reductions.

The federal budget for low - income housing assistance has been targeted for reduction.25, 26 From a public health perspective, the findings of the current study raise concerns about the impact on child well - being of these proposed reductions.

As part of the federal welfare reform of 1996, Congress recognized the need to promote responsible fatherhood as a way to support child wellbeing.2 During the 106th Congress (1999 - 2000), Congress provided funding to the National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI), a non-profit organization that works with government agencies, the military, corrections departments, and community organizations to create fatherhood programs.3 Concurrently, Congress also provided funding to evaluate the Institute for Responsible Fatherhood and Family Revitalization's fatherhood program, signaling the federal government's commitment to researching and assessing the impact of responsible fatherhood programs.4 Although Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama included funding for responsible fatherhood programs in each of their budgets, it was not until the 109th Congress of 2005 - 2006 that the Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood (HMPRF) grants program was created and funded under the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 beginning in FY2006 and continuing through FY2010.5 The program was subsequently reauthorized under the Claims Resolution Act of 2010.6 The HMPRF programs support healthy marriage, responsible parenting, and economic stability activities, and are funded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration of Children and Families» (ACF) Office of Family Assistance (OFA).7 The HMPRF programs have continued to receive funds through FY2016.8 Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education grantees, the New Pathways for Fathers and Families grantees, and Responsible Fatherhood Opportunities for Reentry and Mobility (ReFORM) grantees are currently funded from FY2015 through FY2020.9

«We've seen a 3.6 % reduction in smoking rates over that time yet the Federal Budget has reduced spending on closing the gap anti-smoking initiatives,»