Sentences with phrase «federal funding goes»

Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the panel's top Democrat, fired back, saying that most of the federal funding goes to services for poor women.

Federal funding goes a long way to compensate for these discrepancies.

Even if you buy into a premium plan which is offered by very few insurance companies thus far, the bill specifically prohibits any federal funds going towards it.

«A lot of federal funds went into the building of this, so we can't restrict its use by boundaries,» Hansen said.

A new analysis by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Wilson Center finds the Defense Department and its Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funds much of the U.S. government's research in synthetic biology, with less than 1 percent of total federal funding going to risk research.

«It is critically important that the millions of dollars in federal funds going to school improvement be used as effectively as possible to...

Members of Congress joined today with Planned Parenthood Federation of America to speak out against the House leadership's assault on women's health, including proposals to completely eliminate the National Family Planning Program (Title X) and pass the Pence bill to bar any federal funds going to Planned Parenthood for health care of any kind.

Not exact matches

Already this year, some local NPR affiliates went as far as to advertise the potential federal funding cuts in their annual pledge drives.

The federal government has announced a $ 19.1 million funding boost towards a participation framework that will help Australian businesses get a fairer go at winning government and private sector contracts.

«They undoubtedly are dependent on some special legislation or some under - the - table benefits with Medicaid and with education programs going forward that the federal deficit will have to fund,» he says.

And that even if the President wanted to cut their nonexistent federal funding, he'd still have to go through Congress to do it.

«There were very clear indications this was going to be a political fund,» said Peter Julian, the federal NDP's critic on international trade and the MP for Burnaby - New Westminster.

Since it is the last Friday of the quarter, I'm going to do something a little different and zoom in on three funds invested in federal tax exempt municipal bonds.

Infrastructure, we're going to start spending on infrastructure big, said Donald Trump days before he unveiled his $ 1.5 trillion infrastructure budget proposed by his administration, but as economists have pointed out, Trump's proposed budget requests only $ 200 billion in federal funds and slashes billions in transportation funding, billions more from water, energy.

In short, when the Federal Reserve raises the short - term federal funds rate (which applies to inter-bank transfers), mortgage rates tend to go up aFederal Reserve raises the short - term federal funds rate (which applies to inter-bank transfers), mortgage rates tend to go up afederal funds rate (which applies to inter-bank transfers), mortgage rates tend to go up as well.

With the Federal Reserve pointing toward three more interest rate hikes this year, money market fund yields are likely to go higher.

On October 4, two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Trump finally sent Congress a request for $ 29 billion more for disaster victims in the mainland US, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands; $ 13 billion is set aside to replenish the shrinking FEMA disaster relief fund, and the rest will go to pay federal flood insurance claims.

You just had Bill Gross leave the largest bond fund, the Pimco bond fund, because he said that he didn't think the Federal Reserve was going to be able to raise interest rates on a 10 year bond over 2 %.

With a federal Liberal leadership campaign happening at the same time as the Ontario Liberal leadership, some Liberals are worried about leadership fatigue syndrome setting in and the fact they would be going to the same troughs to raise funds.

The Fed's go - to move is tweaking its target for the federal funds rate, which is what banks charge one another for loans and the benchmark for our rates on mortgages, credit cards and other debts, as well as savings accounts, CDs and Treasury bonds.

$ 600 million of these funds will go toward federal laboratories and programs.

In recent years, the Fed has maintained its target federal funds rate at the lowest it can go — from.25 percent to.75 percent.

• President Obama did not go half far enough in lifting the ban against federal funding for embryonic stem - cell research.

The new measure overturns an Obama - era rule that said states couldn't stop funds from the federal government from going to the abortion provider.

President Trump has just signed legislation that allows officials in individual states to withhold federal funds from going to Planned Parenthood.

I am going to weigh in, being a catholic and the whole shabang... First of all this is not infringing on anyone's right to practice their religion... Requiring insurance companies to provide contraception for women does not mean the woman has to use it or purchase it... Catholic hospitals take federal funds for their patients, therefore they are not exempt from employment laws... If the Catholic Diocese doesn't want to provide the insurance claiming religious beliefs, then they can no longer accept federal funded patients... They also know that they will be subjected to discrimination lawsuits based hiring and religious discrimination — non-catholics work there, and therefore are being denied healthcare due to catholic beliefs... Majority if not all Catholic women do, have, or had used contraception in their lifetime... God does not nor does the bible say anything about contraception, since it had not been invented yet — so this is a man - made law, made by a bunch of men, who have never had a menstrual cycle — and the pain that comes with it....

So before we ever see federal funding levels adequate to finance «real food,» «clean label» meals like those in this Minnesota district, it's going to take a truly seismic shift in how our nation thinks generally about food and the feeding of its school children.

Those that didn't go along were marginalized - no federal jobs, no jobs with investment funds, no work on big projects or in certain cities.

I was curious about this statement, so I went to the Heritage Foundation website where I found position papers, including this one, that point to obesity in America as proof positive that hunger must be greatly exaggerated — and, of course, as a justification for limiting federal funding to feed the poor.

These feel - good programs cost the federal government very little; total funding for the Healthier US Schools awards, which are supposed to go to 1250 schools, is just $ 2.5 million.

The fight for Federal Funds after January between Democrats in the Senate and Republicans in the House is going to be very interesting.

1.26 billion in Federal Funds is not going from Ohio and Wisconsin to New York.

These areas heavily rely on federal funding of the arts, considering about 79 percent of National Endowment for the Arts block - grant funds go to rural communities and low - income areas, according to The Washington Post.

«I think we're going to come up with the monies for the shortfall fund for health care again in response to the federal government.»

«We are going to stay strictly within federal guidance and that way, not imperil any federal funds for any institution that might participate,» he says.

With just over a week to go before the budget deadline, Cuomo for the first time hinted that the spending plan might not be completed on time because of the uncertainty about future federal funding.

For instance, this year's benchmark for the federal budget is $ 42 but oil now goes for over $ 70 per barrel and instead of paying all the revenues to the Federation Account, the FG still operates an Excess Crude Oil Account contrary to the judgment of the Supreme Court and they spend such funds without recourse to appropriate authorities,» he said.

Also, recall that the RNC isn't going to be giving federal Victory funds for the statewide GOTV effort to the state party due to a lack of confidence in Cox, stemming in part from his failed effort to woo party - switching Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy into the governor's race and get him on the ballot.

Despite lingering fears about cuts to health care in Washington, it's worth noting that federal funding for the state's massive Medicaid program is still on track to go up, not down, in the year ahead.

«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

A program that works to help high - risk pregnancies, Go Buffalo Mom, has received a $ 468,000 federal grant to fund that effort.

But both leaders are likely going to have to come up with more cash — both from state and city funds, and from Washington, assuming they can find a way to work with the Republicans who run the federal government.

Bruno announced in a press release sent out by his longtime spokesman John McArdle that he would close out the remainder of his campaign account as well as a legal defense fund formed to help him fight federal corruption charges, with most of the money going to help the GOP maintain control of the chamber.

He stated then that the State presently has a design for the reconstruction of the road as well as the funds to embark on the project but was yet to get the go ahead from the Federal Government.

«We have lost a tremendous source of funding that used to go to municipalities with the state as a pass - through by not having sufficient money out of the federal government,» Hochul said.

His initial reaction to Trump's shock victory was to call the mogul (a longtime donor of his), proffer his congratulations and highlight which of his pet infrastructure projects that could benefit from federal funding — then to go on television and talk about how the Republican's Empire State roots were «a bonus» for New York and the nation.

«We are going to have to provide a financial plan for the Thruway Authority and for the bridge and we do that on an going basis,» he said, adding, «We don't want to get too specific about a tolling plan until we know all the possible financing sources — the federal piece, the EFC piece that I think we all know about and then the settlement funds which kind of thankfully was mana from heavan which a piece of that can be invested in this very important infrastructure project.»

Federal law states that political candidates are allowed to use campaign funds for «authorized expenditures» related to the campaign, but that it can not go toward personal use.

The federal funds included in the spending bill will go towards building a state - of - the - art NCO training academy on base.

Riverkeeper Water Quality Advocate Tracy Brown: «To have the federal government continue to cut the state revolving fund monies that are available to support repair and maintenance is really gonna have a direct impact on water quality and it's gonna increase the number of sewage infrastructure failures and the amount of pollution in our waterways.»