Sentences with phrase «first budget increased»

«Just like Cuomo, Spitzer said he was a different type of Democrat too, but his first budget increased spending by almost 9 % and he refused to take on the things killing our economy.»

Congress had approved the agency's first budget increase since 1992.

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The budget includes a one per cent increase for people on welfare and disability support, who will also be allowed to keep the first $ 200 of earnings each month before their benefits are reduced.

«Multiple politicians have told us that in order for them to support measures like increased foreign aid budgets, they need to see the constituency first.»

Despite receiving a $ 290 million budget increase — the first significant increase approved by Congress in six years — IRS Commissioner John Koskinen says the agency won't be able to replace hundreds of tax - compliance employees expected to retire this year, according to a media briefing reported by USAToday.

President Obama in his first year in office got the biggest budget increase in the history of the VA..

Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.

In its latest budget, the Christy Clark government increased disability assistance for the first time in nine years, then clawed back nearly all of that meagre bump by taking away affordable transit passes.

Likewise, recent estimates by the Tax Policy Center and the Penn Wharton Budget Model show that dynamic effects would marginally reduce the revenue loss in the first decade but significantly increase it over the long run because of the economic consequences of higher debt.

Another strategy that could help you increase your budget a little is to finance your home with a first and second mortgage to eliminate the need for mortgage insurance.

The first budget of Premier Rachel Notley «s NDP government includes a 15 percent increase in capital spending over the next five years, with a goal to create jobs and tackle the province's aging and neglected hospitals, schools, roads and other public infrastructure.

There would also be a 60 - vote point of order if the bill increased the deficit over the first five or first ten years, per the Senate «Pay as you go» (PAYGO) rule, unless the budget resolution repealed the Senate PAYGO rule or established an exception to it.

According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, exploration budgets increased in the 12 - month period as of September for the first time since 2012.

«First, we're pleased that the Assembly included a seven - year extension of mayoral control, as well as an increase in school aid and funds for universal pre-K over the Executive Budget,» de Blasio said.

Heastie said the California move — making that state the first to increase its minimum wage to $ 15 in the nation — not a factor in the budget talks.

Back in 2003, for example, the Assembly and Senate overrode the governor's budget vetoes for the first time in two decades, increasing state taxes over Pataki's opposition to restore billions of dollars in spending on schools, hospitals, nursing homes and localities.

It also comes as school districts and local governments are budgeting within a tax cap with the lowest allowable limit in the levy increase since the measure first took effect in 2012.

The overall Medicaid budget not only increased faster, but at some point in the last few years surpassed total school spending for the first time in New York history.

The projected rate hike is the first increase after three years of reductions and would put the squeeze on district budgets.

Last year the Pentagon requested a $ 112 billion, 6 - year increase in its budget and the FY 2000 budget included a request for an additional $ 12.6 billion as its first installment.

The GOP - controlled county legislature held its first hearing on Mangano's $ 2.98 billion budget, which relies on $ 83 million in new or increased fees.

«If we didn't do that, first of all, the day after we pass this budget we'd have a $ 15 billion deficit next year, we'd be right back in the hole because these outrageous, unsustainable rates of increase must stop.»

When the county executive attempted to raise taxes his first year with a Democratic majority, the two sides of the Legislature joined together to cut $ 8 million from the budget and stop an increase.

But Miner's job, first and foremost, is as an advocate for her city, and if that means calling out the governor for «budget gimmicks» that could increase the long - term fiscal pressure on Syracuse, then so be it.

Franklin County's first budget came with a 12.9 percent increase, though officials hope to whittle it down to 2 percent.

Mayor Bloomberg oversaw a significant increase to close the post September 11 budget gap, a move that hurt his first - term popularity a lot.

It was also advertised as a way to end the horse - trading that's been a part of pay raises for decades — in 1987, Mario Cuomo linked a salary increase to ethics reforms, and the 1998 pay hike was accompanied by the creation of the state's first charter schools, a bill pushed by dairy farmers, and an agreement to give the comptroller authority to withhold legislators» paychecks in years when budgets are late.

If the revised budget were to pass, it would mark the first time since Astorino took office in 2010 that county residents would see an increase in their tax levy.

Cuomo, meanwhile, has worked over the last several years to shore up support from the left after a first term accomplishments that include caps on spending in the budget, limits to local property tax increases and other methods of fiscal restraint following the recession.

Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo today voiced support — albeit not happily — for the 898 layoffs Gov. David Paterson is pursuing prior to the end of the year, but avoided directly addressing whether he would seek to increase that number in his first executive budget.

First, for those that say the budget proposal is «too hot,» the governor made funding of schools more progressive and therefore the increase is prudent and necessary to maintain progressivity.

This also seems like a response to the Denenberg campaign's response to Venditto's first ad, which accused the Republicans of trying to district voters from the «real issues» of property taxes, fee increases and budget deficits that — according to the Democrats — Venditto and his fellow Republicans both «supported and created.»

We agree to announce in the first Budget a substantial increase in the personal allowance from April 2011, with the benefits focused on those with lower and middle incomes.

Trump's first budget for the federal government is a blueprint that would make deep cuts in the Environmental Protection Agency and other domestic programs while significantly increasing spending on the military.

A legal challenge to the cap was first made in 2013, when the New York State United Teachers union held the limit on local property tax increases constricts both local education spending and unlawfully requires a 60 percent majority to approve a budget that increases the levy over the cap.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In his first - ever joint State of the State address / budget presentation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday presented his plan for 2015 Opportunity Agenda, spending much time on education reform that he expects will be an uphill battle and will take up most of the increase in the state budget.

Most notably, Cuomo described the 2014 budget as «plug [ging] this loophole - laden law» by increasing transparency requirements that resulted in a majority of these committees disclosing their donors to the state Board of Elections for the first time.

Malloy's lack of a honeymoon period — those first few months of popularity usually accorded to newly - minted incumbents — is tied directly to his budget proposal, which aims to close the state's $ 3.5 billion deficit through a combination of tax increases and spending cuts.

That is why I decided early on in this budget process that my first priority was to avoid increasing taxes.

The metaphors were clear and painful for Mayor Bill de Blasio's first budget war with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a master of Albany's byzantine backrooms — Mr. Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, had schooled the upstart Mr. de Blasio this year, securing new and unprecedented protections for charter schools, denying Mr. de Blasio a tax hike to fund his universal prekindergarten expansion and swatting away a demand for a municipal minimum wage increase barely after the words had left the mayor's mouth at his maiden State of the City address.

Malloy, in fact, has sharply criticized Democratic proposals that have called for tax increases, and he says the legislature should first focus on spending cuts to resolve the ongoing budget crisis.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday proposed using his first substantial budget surplus to fund a $ 154 billion spending plan that includes a $ 2.1 billion increase in school funding over two years and billions of dollars in legacy - building construction projects.

Cuomo was endorsed by the lobby group in 2010 and embraced in his first term a number of key economic measures such as a cap on property tax increases and has limited spending in the state to under 2 percent in his budgets.

The governor in his first term has cast himself as a pro-business chief executive and pursued measures friendly toward the state's business community, including a self - imposed spending cap in the state budget, a limit on annual property tax increases and a revamped economic development program called START - UP NY.

Poughkeepsie... As part of the continuing efforts to get public input and increase community dialogue, Dutchess County Executive Marcus J. Molinaro will host the County's first live Telephone Town Hall meeting tomorrow evening at 6 pm, following the release of the 2014 Tentative County Budget at 11 am on Wednesday, October 30th.

First, Dicker reports that Paterson has secretly been urging a tax increase on individuals earning more than $ 500,000, in order to make an additional $ 8 billion to cover the budget deficit before his re-election campaign in 2010, when the taxes will mysteriously fade away.

The governor instead decided to co-opt the issue and fund it via the state budget, the first of several issues — including a minimum wage increase, transit funding and prison reform — in which Cuomo has moved sharply to the left, perhaps in response to de Blasio's advocacy.

Edmund J. McMahon, the director of the Empire Center for New York State Policy, an affiliate of the conservative policy group the Manhattan Institute, called the proposed spending increase the largest in an executive budget «since Pataki's first election - year budget.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled the first executive budget of his tenure on Thursday, a $ 73.9 billion spending plan that manages to fund his political priorities without widespread agency cuts or tax increases, thanks to higher - than - expected revenues and spending from two reserve funds.

In his first term, Martin called for fiscal conservatism on most issues that he dealt with, opposing a bill to increase the minimum wage and voting against Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget proposals in 2015 and 2016.