Sentences with phrase «federal infrastructure dollars»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget proposal could give New York a leg up when competing for federal infrastructure dollars, thanks to a proposal to streamline...

President - elect Donald Trump and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo met at Trump Tower Wednesday morning, where Cuomo made his pitch for the state to receive federal infrastructure dollars for state projects and voiced concerns about Republican - led efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Trump and Gov. Andrew Cuomo met at Trump Tower, where Cuomo made his pitch for the state to receive federal infrastructure dollars for state projects and voiced concerns about Republican - led efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

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Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

Over the next decade, our Government will invest 70 billion dollars in federal, provincial, territorial and community infrastructure.

Every federal dollar should be leveraged by partnering with state and local governments, and, where appropriate, tapping into private sector investment, to permanently fix the infrastructure deficit.

The federal - provincial deals required to launch a decade - long, multibillion - dollar infrastructure spree must be negotiated and finalized in the next few months.

But if the state issued a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit for charitable contributions made to, say, the state's general infrastructure fund, the first $ 6,000 donated, though reducing state tax liability by $ 6,000, does nothing to lower federal taxes owed because the taxpayer would still take the standard deduction.

Since 2015, infrastructure projects paid for by federal dollars have had to plan ahead for floods and water damage.

But I've often wondered if the skills acquired in a high - end restaurant kitchen have much to do with the problems faced by school food departments: extremely tight budgets (just a dollar per meal for food), reams of federal regulations, often seriously deficient infrastructure, and a notoriously fickle and hard - to - please clientele.

Together, we secured billions of federal dollars for two of the largest infrastructure projects in the country — the 2nd Avenue Subway and the Queens - Manhattan Connector.

When the plan is complete, it will give Buffalo Niagara priority status for Federal dollars related to transportation infrastructure, housing and community development, cleaning our environment and promoting economic development.

We need every last dollar we can get from the federal government to revitalize our aging infrastructure.

Speaking at a press conference with Puerto Rico's Gov. Ricardo Rossello, Cuomo pledged New York's support and said a «silver lining» to the storm would be the flood of federal recovery dollars and the chance to build back the infrastructure better than it was before.

«What's happening in West Seneca is unacceptable, but many of their costs stem from maintaining an aging and out of date infrastructure, and for that we need voices in Washington advocating a return on investment of our federal tax dollars.

Over time, the government has come to rely on data from the census and its longer annual offshoot, the American Community Survey (ACS), to allocate half - a-trillion dollars through health, welfare, housing, infrastructure, education, and other federal programs.

Each dollar of Federal funds can provide up to $ 10 in TIFIA credit assistance and support up to $ 30 in transportation infrastructure investment.

The guiding principles are to: 1) use federal dollars as seed money to incentivize infrastructure investment; 2) provide for the needs of rural communities; 3) streamline permitting to speed up project delivery; and, 4) reduce unnecessary and overly burdensome regulations.

Each dollar of federal funding can provide up to $ 10 in TIFIA credit assistance and support up to $ 30 in transportation infrastructure investment.

He also spoke as the federal government appears poised to run budgetary deficits in order to invest billions of dollars in areas such as infrastructure as a way to boost Canada's weak growth.

«This bill will pave the way for a House - Senate conference to discuss both reforming how taxpayer dollars are spent on federal infrastructure programs, and also meaningful solutions that would address high gas prices and create jobs by permanently removing government barriers to American energy production.»

In the wake of the 2008 financial downturn, the federal government put together a massive rescue package, pumping billions of dollars into infrastructure programs to prop up Canada's economy.

As a nation, we've under - financed our water infrastructure and changed our finance strategies to rely on local ratepayers instead of state or federal tax dollars.

FQHCs are an essential part of the nation's overall health care safety net, serving 25 million people annually, seven in 10 of whom live at or below the federal poverty level.2 Their role has been expanded by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which invested billions of new dollars into FQHC infrastructure, driving considerable nationwide growth in the number of sites and their capacity.3 In conjunction with their overall growth, FQHC sites have become increasingly integral to the national publicly funded family planning effort.

«I am a little bit disappointed to hear that the current administration's $ 1 trillion infrastructure plan is in no way connected to some new expenditure of federal dollars,» says Moser.