Sentences with phrase «from budget watchdogs»

But then, they've spent the last decade ignoring the warnings from budget watchdogs that state and local spending was unsustainable.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked New York City commissioners to look for ways to cut costs in a gesture of fiscal moderation prompted by worries over the rocky world economy, drawing cautious praise from budget watchdogs.

That approach is being met with concern from some budget watchdogs.

State lawmakers are pushing legislation again to restore more generous disability pensions to recently hired cops and firefighters — drawing fire from a budget watchdog who warned the cost would...

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Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is, according to reports from Bloomberg and CNN, under consideration to become interim director of the federal government's consumer watchdog after current director Richard Cordray steps down later this month.

OTTAWA — The federal government is announcing a slight change to its plan to streamline the spending - approval process into a single $ 7 - billion vote after complaints earlier this week from the parliamentary budget watchdog.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Half of the money spent so far from New York state's $ 10 billion in legal settlement windfall has gone to support the state budget rather than the capital projects for which it should be used, the state's chief fiscal watchdog said on Friday.

Government watchdogs expressed concern that the budget added more than $ 700 million in new agency spending since January despite reduced tax - revenue projections from real - estate transactions and personal income taxes.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is taking credit for the state budget's turn around from huge gaps to healthy surpluses, but a watchdog group says Cuomo is relying on future funds that have not yet materialized.

The private meetings drew criticism from the Albany press corps and government watchdogs, who questioned why the governor's office had not initially scheduled a public budget briefing.

Amid the criticism from de Blasio and budget watchdogs, Cuomo changed his tune on the plan — suggesting the point of the proposal was simply to get players to the table to cut costs for CUNY and Medicaid.

Buffalo's fiscal watchdog says the city needs to get out of its longtime habit of taking money from reserves to close out budget deficits.

Facing criticism from de Blasio, his allies, and budget watchdogs who warned the shifts would devastate the city's finances, Cuomo insisted his budgeting would simply foster a joint cost - saving exercise that in the end wouldn't cost the city anything.

Representatives from other government watchdog organizations — including New York Public Interest Group (NYPIRG), Reinvent Albany, Common Cause, and Citizens Budget Commission — told Gotham Gazette that they have not taken a position on the ballot question, but that the issue is being debated vigorously internally.

A new report from Citizens Budget Commission, a government finance watchdog group, examines the costs of implementing universal pre-kindergarten statewide, and attempts to explain why that remains an «elusive» goal.

A report last week from the Citizens Budget Commission, a government finance watchdog group, estimated that it would cost an additional $ 4 billion to the state's education budget to fund Budget Commission, a government finance watchdog group, estimated that it would cost an additional $ 4 billion to the state's education budget to fund budget to fund pre-K.

The article also cited research from the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan government watchdog group, that likewise found more than $ 8 billion spent each year on economic development incentives in New York state.

A scathing report from the state's watchdog Authorities Budget Office details how the EFC skirted its responsibilities in considering a $ 511 million loan to the Thruway Authority to help finance the $ 3.9 billion New NY Bridge, as the new span is called.

An analysis by Citizens Budget Commission, the nonpartisan nonprofit budget watchdog, showed that $ 189 million of the nearly $ 1 billion in savings proposed just for fiscal 2017 comes from agency efficieBudget Commission, the nonpartisan nonprofit budget watchdog, showed that $ 189 million of the nearly $ 1 billion in savings proposed just for fiscal 2017 comes from agency efficiebudget watchdog, showed that $ 189 million of the nearly $ 1 billion in savings proposed just for fiscal 2017 comes from agency efficiencies.

Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.

This expansion has drawn flak from the Citizens Budget Commission, an influential fiscal watchdog in Manhattan.

To compensate for the plus - up, Smith's amendment cuts $ 500,000 from the budget for NSF's inspector general, the agency's internal but independent watchdog.

It followed criticism from the National Audit Office, the government's spending watchdog, that the department had not communicated the scale or urgency of the budget cuts.