Six agencies account for more than 95 % of total
federal expenditures on basic research, which amounts to about $ 32 billion this year.
The next to the last column in Table 1 presents the total annual
federal expenditure for the program that is a direct benefit for children or is conditional on children.
The latest example: Michael Fletcher, writing for the Washington Post on Tuesday, who misleads his readers with the following: «The $ 4.35 billion effort was enacted last year as part of the $ 787 billion economic stimulus plan, marking one of the largest
federal expenditures ever on the nation's public schools.»
In light of
reducing federal expenditure, Cotton has also expressed support for funding to local education authorities, in this case the Arkansas Higher Education Authority.
The Conservative government argues Page has overstepped his bounds and that the PBO's job is to
review federal expenditures, not dollars it has decided not to spend.
It is important that the federal government is persistently committed to
ensuring federal expenditures are fair for Canadians, efficient, and fiscally responsible.
With the tax reform debate now fully underway, Apartment List examined the popular mortgage interest deduction (MID) and
compared federal expenditure on the MID to spending on Section 8 rental assistance programs.
Independent PACs are permitted to back candidates or support issues outside any state or
federal expenditure limit, but they're not permitted to coordinate their activities with an individual candidate's campaign.
It is of grave concern to the research community that President Trump's budget proposal — which would fund the agency at a 15 - year low — values investments in defense above all
other federal expenditures.»
But the 2010 election knocked that plan into a cocked hat, as the newly elected Republican majority in the House of Representatives
pushed federal expenditures downward.
The actual power to
determine federal expenditures rests in the House and the Senate, and even in years of less drastic proposals, legislators often pass a federal budget that looks quite different from the one suggested by the president.
There are also
significant federal expenditures for the health care of young children through Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, and for public and post-secondary education.
From the early 1980s to mid-1990s,
federal expenditures directed toward Aboriginal peoples more than tripled, growing from $ 1.4 billion in 1980 — 81 to $ 5.6 billion in 1995 — 96.
The $ 4.35 billion effort was enacted last year as part of the $ 787 billion economic stimulus plan, marking one of the
largest federal expenditures ever on the nation's public schools.
This pathetic status of government accounting limits the reporting
of federal expenditures on climate issues for years after FY 2013, which is why the numbers provided here for FY 2014 are estimated.
The largest
federal expenditures on children and families, ignoring Medicaid, CHIP and the education system, are through provisions of the tax code that are tied to a taxpayer's income, number of dependents, and the amount parents spent on the care of their children.
Federal expenditure and entitlement reforms must involve meaningful cuts in the near future and not at the end of the next presidential term in 2016.
The federal expenditure on housing assistance is currently doing a poor job of allocating money to households that need it most.
In 2015,
federal expenditure on the MID was more than double the funding for Section 8.
The education industry hoped and expected the stimulus package would set a new floor for
federal expenditure.
RttT is not the «largest
federal expenditure» on public schools; it is less than 6 percent of the amount the federal government spent on schools by the very stimulus package Fletcher refers to.
Today in Washington, and indeed leading up to the implementation of the Bipartisan Budget Control Act (BCA)(aka sequestration) next year,
federal expenditures will be on the tip of everyones tongue.
[35] $ 16 billion of that would be needed, along with the existing $ 26 billion of
federal expenditure, to make the proposed CESA program budget neutral.
And while there are surely categories of
federal expenditure that many people would find more attractive targets for redirection into childcare than the charitable deduction, e.g., carried interest, military spending, my goal is to be politically realistic.
Every federal expenditure of substance has beneficiaries that can be expected to oppose efforts to roll back the funding from which they reap an advantage.
First there was
the federal expenditure of money, allowed by none of the enumerated powers, largely starting in the 1960s.
While the U.S. Department of Education's budget comprises only 2 % of
all federal expenditures, federal education funds have a significant impact on the ability of schools to meet the learning needs of students.
Also, while cuts in defense spending are certainly inevitable, to my thinking defense spending is one of the more protected areas of
federal expenditures.
Last year, wildfires burned more than 10 million acres in the United States at a cost of $ 2.1 billion in
federal expenditures — the costliest year on record.
A billion bucks may not seem to be a huge deal in either
federal expenditure or in the context of a major car company, but an amount in that range, spread in the legitimate R&D world has significance, and can result in verifiable innovation.
Compare that to 25 years ago, when housing was 7.8 percent of
federal expenditures, according to federal budget data.