Sentences with phrase «federal government spending on»

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

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

Luke Messer, a Republican Congressman from Indiana who is a friend of Mike Pence and who founded the Congressional School Choice Caucus already suggested that some or all of the money for Trump's school choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would relish.

One last inconvenient truth lies at the center of this dispute over funding: all the nonprofit funding on both sides can't compare to what the federal government spends on climate change programs and messages.

One last inconvenient truth: all the nonprofit funding on both sides can't compare to what the federal government spends on climate change programs and messages.

Not exact matches

And that means that what the federal government regulates, taxes, and spends over the next several years could in large part hinge on the actions of just one 72 - year - old Southerner: Mitch McConnell.

In her announcement, Gillibrand criticized the 2010 Supreme Court case, Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, which ruled that the government should not regulate the amount of money corporations and unions can spend on campaigns.

Perry Metz, who oversees WFIU and WTIU in Indiana, told Business Insider that he was concerned by the proposed budget and argued that the percent of the federal government's budget that is spent on public media is «tiny.»

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.

The API has spent more than $ 7.7 million on lobbying the federal government so far this year and is also spending $ 300,000 buying ads to urge Democratic Senator Mark Udall to approve the Keystone pipeline.

The GDP release also delivered an unwelcome surprise on government spending: budget trimming by federal agencies, especially the defence department, shaved an estimated eight percentage points off growth.

Perth company director Sharon Warburton has been named as the incoming chair of a soon - to - be-established federal government fund that will have $ 5 billion to spend on infrastructure in northern Australia.

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 federal government will spend $ 8.5 million to change the traffic lines on all Mitchell and Kwinana freeway on - ramps in an effort to improve traffic merging and remove the stigma widely associated with Perth drivers.

In the last of those years, the reporters discovered, the federal government actually spent more on urine - based drug tests than it did on «the four most recommended cancer screenings combined.»

The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government would have to find about $ 43.1 billion to cover the full cost of the program because Ottawa already spends about $ 32.9 billion a year on support to low - income Canadians.

Statistics Canada reports that spending on home repairs and maintenance increased 22 % in 2009 over the previous year, «likely due to the federal government home renovation tax credit program.»

The projected elimination of the federal government deficit — currently exceeding $ 30 billion — relies on the assumption of annual GDP growth of 5.6 % while program spending is held to an average annual growth rate of 2 %.

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.

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

After assessing her policies on taxes and government spending, foreign immigration, and the federal minimum wage, Moody's concluded that a President Hillary Clinton would oversee a «somewhat stronger U.S. economy.»

For one, federal spending cuts are also likely weighing on state and local government hiring — as about 25 % of their funding comes from Washington.

The federal government will funnel $ 300 million a year into the grants, while still providing provinces with $ 200 million a year that they can spend directly on services like job counseling.

The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), international organizations and we have argued that the federal government is facing a small structural deficit now but that it will increase rapidly after 2015 due to demographic pressures on potential economic growth and health related spending.

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.

The New York Times covered the exciting news that the federal government has met its goal of awarding 5 percent of money spent on contractors to women - owned businesses.

Next up for Congress is the need to reach an agreement on spending before the continuing resolution (CR) expires on Dec. 22, forcing the federal government to shut down.

This is not surprising given that the federal government currently spends about $ 4.5 billion annually (0.24 % Of GNI) on international assistance.

The only variables he admits are structure - free: The federal government can indeed spend more and reduce interest rates (especially on mortgages) so that the higher mortgage debt, student debt, personal debt and corporate debt overhead can be afforded more easily.

They argue that, since 2009, the federal government's plans to balance the budget have been based on «risky projections, optimistic forecasts of revenue growth and unrealistic plans for spending restraint», which have resulted in increases in the projected deficit with each successive budget, and the pushing out of the date that the deficit would be eliminated.

Over the period 2002 - 03 to 2005 - 06, the budgetary revenues and spending forecasts for the federal government were not on the same accounting basis as the final audited results in the Public Accounts of Canada.

After inheriting a surplus the government immediately cut the GST by two points, and in doing so created a structural deficit and an unsustainable fiscal situation, which then required significant spending cuts in the 2010, 2011 and 20012 budgets in order to put the federal finances back on a sustainable path.

Until the Federal government can pass a budget (they haven't in almost four years), remove the 7 - year long ZIRP which penalizes savers and rewards debtors, and find a way to eventually remove the excess QEs and > $ 1 trillion annual spending deficits, I will stay on the porch while the «big dogs» run.

OTTAWA — As Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivers the federal budget Thursday in the House of Commons, the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer will deliver arguments in court seeking clarity on its mandate and more information on the Conservative government's spending cuts.

It has come to my attention that some economists claim that our sovereign federal government is more or less powerless to kickstart the economy because of our great dependence on the United States and therefore should do next to nothing: «Mr. Orr and other economists urged Ottawa to ignore pleas to boost stimulus spending further -LSB-...]

The federal government plans to spend millions of dollars less this year on advertising and outreach efforts to support the health law's open enrollment period, which starts Nov. 1.

Those projected surpluses are a bit of a patch job, held together by baling wire and duct tape: they depend on some conveniently timed asset sales (e.g., the divestment of the federal government's GM holdings) a delayed reduction in EI contribution rates — and continued spending restraint.

Off - budget: Federal government expenditures on certain programs, agencies, and government sponsored enterprises that are accounted for separately in the budget to prevent spending changes or avoid a conflict of interest.

Despite the more than $ 22 trillion the federal government has spent over the past five decades fighting the War on Poverty, nearly 40.6 million Americans remain trapped in poverty.

The federal government, of course, also continues twentieth - century transfer payment programs for provincial spending that live on in our century.

The House and Senate are expected to vote on a massive budget deal that will prevent another government shutdown and increase federal spending by about $ 300 billion.

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.

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

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.

According to the Main Estimates, tabled by the President of the Treasury Board, on June 3rd, along with Supplementary Estimates A, spending by the federal government for 2011 - 12 is forecast to be $ 252.8 billion representing a DECLINE of $ 14.1 billion from spending in 2010 - 11.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

Ambrose said emulating the process that saw the federal Conservative party come together from the federal PCs and the Canadian Alliance is a necessity on the provincial level to defeat Premier Rachel Notley's government, which she castigated for raising taxes and not controlling spending.

Statement by the Honourable Doug Black Ottawa, April 8, 2018 — Alberta Elected Senator Doug Black issued the following statement following Kinder Morgan's announcement of their suspension of non-essential spending on Trans Mountain Expansion Project: «I am shocked and deeply disappointed for all Canadians by the lack of action from the Federal Government which has brought us to this brink.

The Harper government's 2012 budget called for substantial cuts to federal spending on the environment: $ 83.3 million in 2012 - 13, $ 117.9 million in 2013 - 14 and, starting in 2014 - 15, $ 180.5 million per year on an ongoing basis.

The federal government has tested the public's appetite for a Netflix tax, a new smartphone app for streaming Canadian content and spending on «moonshot» projects like placing a network of balloons on the edge of space to boost Internet access.