Sentences with phrase «federal government spending»

The affordable care act will increase federal government spending on medical care starting in 2014.

In addition, federal government spending also recorded a significant (5.6 percent) decline.

In addition, federal government spending also recorded a significant (5.6 %) decline.

Trump's proposed elimination of funds for the CPB, as well as other groups like the National Endowment for the Arts, represents one of the biggest drawdowns of federal government spending in several decades.

The U.S. federal government spent billions of dollars over three decades to make today's shale gas revolution a reality.

A Rome meal, which includes lunch and a snack, costs $ 6.56, versus the $ 2.68 which the U.S. federal government spends on a lunch served to a child who qualifies for a free meal.

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In an article in iPOLTICS on October 31st, Elizabeth Thompson reported that Maxime Bernier — the Ted Cruz of Canadian politics - would present a resolution at the Conservative Party's National Convention, which would introduce balanced budget legislation and freeze federal government spending at $ 300 billion beginning in 2016 - 17 and continue for the next four fiscal years.

The answer for us is much larger federal government spending, on the train line Chorney suggests perhaps, as well as other things.

If you consider the «wealthy» to be everyone who earns more than one million per year in income or capital gains (which was a cutoff for many proposals over the last two years), can taxing their income at any level fund the current federal government spending?

The Republicans have stayed true to their promises to fight for getting federal government spending under control.

But strategists should stop short of advocating federal government spending later in the technology development process, where government is more likely to merely be subsidizing private firms rather than constructively shifting the course of markets.

Under present law, in 2013 the 2001/2003 tax cuts expire, the payroll tax cut expires, extended unemployment benefits end, and federal government spending levels decline due to last summer's Budget Control Act.

At least in America where dispite the fact that 2 out of every 4 dollars the U.S. Federal government spends is borrowed, Conservatives continue to demand that they are over taxed and that tax cuts — what has produced America's $ 14 trillion dollare debt — are the solution to the budget crisis.

According to the report, the macroeconomic outlook for 2013 is another year of only modest improvement in employment and consumer spending, with overall economic growth held back by slower growth of business investment and a bigger decline in federal government spending.

The federal government spends a lot of money on many things in the name of a healthy culture and a vigorous civic discourse.

This means that if the federal government repairs the Champlain Bridge for $ 5 billion (which could be borrowed in financial markets in the first year of work) there would be no charge to the federal government spending in the federal budget until the bridge is repaired and vehicles are operating on it.

«There's nobody that's wrong on estimates right now,» Bossert said, when asked about a suggestion from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) that recovery needs might exceed $ 100 billion — a figure that would represent about 10 percent of what the federal government spends each year on all nondefense discretionary spending combined.

The federal government spends about $ 5 - billion a year on R&D, spread over 60 programs across 17 different government departments.

Breaking the GDP report down, we see that in addition to overall modest strength in the economy (growth was still off from the fourth quarter's 2.9 %), the upturn was helped individually by positive contributions from nonresidential fixed investment, exports, private inventory investment, federal government spending, and state and local government spending.

The federal government spent about $ 277 billion on relief aid from 2005 to 2014, responding to natural disasters like Harvey, according to a 2016 report from the federal Government Accountability Office.

According to the Urban Institute's Kids» Share report, the federal government spent six times as much on seniors as children (in 2011), and that trend will surely grow under current law with three - fifths of total spending growth over the next decade coming from adults and seniors on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid but only two percent from programs for children.

They are the ones who use racist, nasty comments about the poor on welfare and call them «takers» when in fact the Federal government spends 10 times more on corporate tax loopholes and «corporate welfare» in subsidies to oil companies, the sugar and corn industries and many others.

Currently, the federal government spends close to a trillion dollars a year on more than 80 mean - tested welfare programmes.

The federal government spends more money on dairy products than any other food item in the school lunch program.

New York ranked 46th in the nation in its balance of payments between the amount it generated in federal taxes and the amount of federal government spending it received.

When compared to 2000 levels of spending, is this an increase / decrease in federal government spending (in real dollars) per citizen?

The federal government spends $ 176 million a year on abstinence - only education, and millions more are spent every year in state and local matching grants.

That's roughly what the federal government spends on just Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and welfare.

The federal government spent just over $ 445 billion in FFY 2016 to purchase services and goods in the 50 states and Washington, D.C. New York ranked 45th among the states in this category.

Last week, Mr. Cantor, the majority leader, said that any money the federal government spends to assist storm - damaged areas should be offset by cuts elsewhere in the budget.

Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II Lamido Sanusi, Wednesday in Kaduna raised alarm that the federal government spends a whooping 66 per cent of Nigerian...

To reach that defense spending goal, however, Congress will need to agree to change to change a 2011 law, known as the Budget Control Act (BCA), that places binding caps on defense and nondefense discretionary spending, which accounts for roughly one - third of the $ 3.5 trillion that the federal government spends annually.

Every year hundreds of thousands of Americans undergo acupuncture for conditions ranging from pain to post-traumatic stress disorder, and the federal government spends tens of millions of dollars to study the protocol.

Leutkemeyer said that the federal government spends $ 13 million on the IPCC each year, citing federal budget documents.

A new analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the NRDC, finds that the federal government spent three times more than the private insurance industry on climate change impacts last year.

Filled with new spending and over one trillion dollars in tax increases, his proposal once again fails to balance the budget and continues to borrow 25 cents for every dollar the federal government spends.

It places a binding cap on discretionary spending, which accounts for roughly one - third of the $ 3.5 trillion that the federal government spends annually (the other two - thirds goes to entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security, other kinds spending required by law, and paying interest on the national debt).

Payments to social security recipients, the costs of national defense, medical expenditures, and interest payments on the national debt constitute the bulk of federal government spending.

Under the Obama administration, the federal government spent over $ 7 billion in an effort to turnaround failing schools via the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.

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.

The federal government spent an estimated $ 50.5 billion on education programs during fiscal year 1990, the report said.

The federal government spends only 10 percent of all funding for schools, with state and local governments equally splitting the remaining 90 percent.

While the federal government spends nearly $ 12 billion a year on special education programs, only about $ 10 million has traditionally been set aside for gifted education.

I find that, leaving aside health care as well as public and post-secondary education, the federal government spends approximately $ 217 billion annually through tax expenditures that are conditional on children and on social programs intended to support children.

The federal government spends over $ 14 billion on Title I grants in NCLB annually — not to mention over $ 11 billion on special education.