Sentences with phrase «federal government spending at»

But what are the implications of freezing total federal government spending at $ 300 billion to 2020 - 21?

Not exact matches

In a February address to Congress, Trump called for a $ 200 billion federal investment intended to spur at least $ 1.5 trillion in spending from state and local governments over 10 years on roads, bridges, ports and other projects.

With the help of government bailouts and Federal Reserve liquidity efforts, nonfinancial companies have amassed $ 1.8 trillion in cash that at some point will need to be spent.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump's push for a major military buildup suffered a setback on Thursday when the House of Representatives put plans on hold to fully fund the federal government through next Sept. 30 and instead resorted to temporary measures freezing spending at current levels.

The Canadian Media Guild (which also represents unionized workers at The Canadian Press) worries the new money from the federal government wasn't a reinvestment in the CBC so much as spending on companies producing CBC programming.

The Trump administration is preparing to release an infrastructure plan in the coming weeks that reportedly includes at least $ 200 billion in federal spending that would jumpstart investment from the private sector, and state and local governments.

The federal government will pledge action in the Throne Speech aimed at eliminating the gap between the sticker price of consumer goods sold in Canada and the U.S., sources say — part of a new populist agenda that will require little extra spending in cash - strapped Ottawa.

As a share of GDP, program spending for the federal government is at a very low level compared to previous years, dating from the middle of the last century.

For four decades it has been much debated, since the aid program — currently capped at around $ 4 billion — accounts for a significant amount of the federal government's discretionary spending.

NO: Federal spending at these levels is unsustainable and must be cut sharply now by empowering state and local governments, consolidating duplicative programs and privatizing government programs.

The federal government plans to spend about $ 2 - billion per year on family income splitting that will mainly benefit high - income, traditional families with a stay at home spouse, to a maximum amount of $ 2,000 per year.

Spending by the federal government shrank at a 1.6 per cent annual rate.

And literally everyone who relies on the federal government for anything, including Congress, will be wondering just how many things are going wrong, or being left undone, because the people at the top are spending their time playing Trump's guessing game instead of doing their jobs.

At that time, economists feared a major recession, which historically had followed major wars, and the Federal government intended to be ready for resumption of the New Deal's fiscal policy of massive, albeit feckless, spending to create full employment.

If this means that the Government of Canada is just to transfer money without conditions to provinces, that does not help matters much at all, because for any given level of federal spending there will still be debilitating tax competition between the provinces.

We know from rueful experience that federal regulation can be at once ineffective and economically damaging, that the government's ability to «fine - tune» the economy has been highly exaggerated, and that the tendency of welfare spending to create conditions of dependency is more than a hobgoblin of timid or reactionary minds.

Tranter began working at Friends of the Parks in 1980, around the time that the federal government sued the Chicago Park District for spending an unfair amount of tax dollars in powerful, white neighborhoods instead of minority communities, she said.

A veteran of more than 50 years in government — 22 years as alderman — Roti was convicted of racketeering and extortion, for which he spent four years at a federal prison in Oxford, Wis..

He spent so much of the book saying the problem begins at home, then attempts to solve it by expanding Federal government.

Cuomo last week blamed the federal government and potential cuts from the Republican - led Congress for uncertainty he said at the time could result in a temporary spending plan.

At issue were comments O'Luck made on the Times» City Room blog in February 2009, in which he said that if government programs that benefit businesses owned by women and minorities weren't around «white men and the connected would have access to nearly 100 % of all city, state, and federal government dollars spent.»

So, it's no surprise that Stewart was among those infuriated by the federal government's decision that cancer is being excluded from the illnesses covered by the act, with experts insisting there's no firm medical proof that first responders's apparent higher incidence of the disease can indeed be linked to the time they spent at Ground Zero.

As Trump spends much of August at his New Jersey golf club, Democratic lawmakers are making a new push for information about how much money the federal government is spending at his for - profit properties.

He was convicted in 2016 on federal charges of wire fraud and theft of government services, after spending time on politics, golfing, and gambling while saying he was at work in the sheriff's office.

-- Invited the first openly gay couple to stay overnight in the White House — Encouraged her husband to fight the AIDS epidemic to the tune of $ 5.727 billion that was spent by the federal government by the time President Reagan left office — Sent a special message in support of Log Cabin Republicans that was read at our 2013 Spirit of Lincoln Dinner.

And instead of more details, it effectively punted, saying that the state would at some point put in money, but only after the MTA spent down its contributions from the city and federal government.

The SALT cap also will increase the effective cost of State and local government services at the margin; each new dollar of State and local government spending will cost New York taxpayers more than under previous federal law.

So, to recap: The congresswoman is seeking more spending by the federal government here in New York to help with the post-Irene recovery — a move that would, if she and Cantor had their way, require additional cuts at a time when Washington is already polarized over reductions mandated by the debt ceiling deal passed early this month.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday launched yet another salvo at the proposal to shift Medicaid spending from county governments to the state, decrying the Faso - Collins amendment as the «Faso - Collins Federal Tax.»

The Trump administration escalated a battle with government ethics groups by declining, even in the face of a federal court order, to release a comprehensive list of individuals visiting with the president at Mar - a-Lago during the two dozen days he spent there this year.

Short - Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations — Vote Passed (235 - 193, 5 Not Voting) The House passed the joint resolution that would provide funding for federal government operations and services at current levels through Dec. 22, 2017, at an annualized rate of $ 1.23 trillion for federal departments and agencies covered by the 12 unfinished fiscal 2018 spending bills.

That is, Republicans may be hoping that without the break on federal taxes I was getting for my high property, city and state taxes, I may vote to reduce taxes — and thus spending — at all levels of government.

Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has spent years chipping away at the ability of the federal government to detain and deport illegals who wind up at Rikers Island.

Kenneth E. Riddett, who was legislative counsel to the Senate majority for many years, took the stand Tuesday at Bruno's federal trial on corruption charges and spent hours answering questions about the lawmaker's financial disclosure forms that are at the heart of the government's case.

Federal, State and County governments combined spend about $ 1 billion a year on Medicaid in Erie County, with our local share at about $ 219 million.

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The debate about whether the federal government should spend money on basic research instead of giving more to applied research is an old one, said Melinda Baldwin, a lecturer in the history of science at Harvard University.

The next day the federal government nudged the high - energy physics community into the winners» circle by announcing plans to spend roughly $ 136 million over 5 years on operations and upgrades at the national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics.

The OMB guidelines were issued in response to reports of wasteful government spending by federal employees at «junket - style» gatherings.

Overall, the budget released by Prime Minister Tony Abbott's conservative government, elected this past September, is aimed at slashing the federal government's long - term spending deficits.

The spending bill, expected to be attached to a continuing resolution for all federal agencies that must pass by Friday to avoid a government shutdown, funds NASA at $ 17.8 billion for FY 2012.

September 30, 2013 • Only hours before a partial shutdown of the federal government would take effect, House Republicans still hadn't arrived at a temporary spending bill that Senate Democrats were willing to approve to keep government workers on the job.

And at the end of the day, the federal government accounts for less than ten percent of total spending on education, so any changes would be relatively modest.

The question at the heart of federal education policy is what the federal government ought to require to ensure that the money is well spent.

Though Bersin's undergraduate degree at Harvard was in government, and he spent years as a corporate lawyer and federal prosecutor, he made a career shift to education in 1998 when a group of San Diego civic leaders asked him to consider becoming the school superintendent in that city.

which is now available at www.EducationNext.org and will appear in the Spring 2010 issue of Education Next, Smarick reviews the impact of the federal government's education stimulus spending to date.

They should avoid prescription and both reward and produce rigorous evidence, thus increasing the share of education dollars spent on evidence - based programs while at the same time fulfilling the federal government's unique responsibility for producing and disseminating high - quality evidence on the best ways to improve American schools.

Based on historic spending trends and estimating that the federal government's stimulus contribution will grow to approximately $ 90 billion, Guthrie and Peng project that national per pupil revenues could increase at a rate of nearly 2.5 percent annually over the next ten years.

«The frustration of the court matches the policy movements across the states and across the federal government over the same time,» said Eric A. Hanushek, a fellow in education at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, who testified for the State of Connecticut in defending what it spends on schools.

Congress finally ended its 16 - day shutdown of the federal government by passing a short - term spending agreement (PDF) that will continue to fund education programs at FY13 levels.