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Speaking at a forum organised by the Nigerian Bar Association on Monday, the former Lagos State governor, said the legislature lacked the power to unilaterally increase national budget.

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Because Congress has refused to either raise taxes or cut other spending to pay for the war, the necessary borrowing has substantially raised the budget deficit and increased the national debt.

Her agenda also includes proposals to connect every US household to high - speed internet by 2020, train 50,000 new computer science teachers, increase the research and development budgets of the National Science Foundation, and bolster cybersecurity, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Under Obama's proposal, national security programs would see an increase of $ 38 billion over current spending limits, raising the defense budget to $ 561 billion.

According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, enacting the bill would shrink the federal budget deficit by $ 175 billion by 2020, lift GDP by 5.4 % over the next 20 years, increase national productivity, balloon the workforce by about 5 % by 2033, raise the return on capital, and (although the CBO didn't put it this way) create a $ 46 billion windfall for entrepreneurs supplying security operations along the U.S. southern bBudget Office estimates, enacting the bill would shrink the federal budget deficit by $ 175 billion by 2020, lift GDP by 5.4 % over the next 20 years, increase national productivity, balloon the workforce by about 5 % by 2033, raise the return on capital, and (although the CBO didn't put it this way) create a $ 46 billion windfall for entrepreneurs supplying security operations along the U.S. southern bbudget deficit by $ 175 billion by 2020, lift GDP by 5.4 % over the next 20 years, increase national productivity, balloon the workforce by about 5 % by 2033, raise the return on capital, and (although the CBO didn't put it this way) create a $ 46 billion windfall for entrepreneurs supplying security operations along the U.S. southern border.

The amount of debt that is projected under the extended baseline would reduce national saving and income in the long term; increase the government's interest costs, putting more pressure on the rest of the budget; limit lawmakers» ability to respond to unforeseen events; and increase the likelihood of a fiscal crisis, an occurrence in which investors become unwilling to finance a government's borrowing unless they are compensated with very high interest rates.

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

At last November's Budget, the chancellor announced that the National Living Wage would increase 4.4 % for those aged 25 or over.

The commitment in Budget 2011 to undertake a Strategic Operating Review to find $ 4 billion in annual savings followed the Budget 2010 initiatives which restrained growth in national defence spending, capped funding of the International Assistance Envelope, forced departments to absorb the increase in annual federal employees» wages for 2011 - 12, and froze their operating budgets for 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 at their 2010 - 11 levels.

The country's fiscal spending, according to the Congressional Budget Office, may increase the national debt as a percent of GDP to a higher level than Italy in five years.

In my recent National Post column, I make reference to some back - of - envelope calculations to the effect that replacing the fiscal anchor of balanced budgets to one of a fixed debt - GDP ratio allows the federal government to increase spending by 1.2 percentage points of GDP, or by about $ 25 billion.

Since it is unlikely they will have any important effect on growth, they will bloat the budget deficit at a time when we should be preparing for the next downturn, for rising entitlement costs, and potentially for the need for increased national security spending.

Yes we only want the type of Christians that send our young people into war, increase our military budget, increase our national debt & take money from poor.

Defence secretary Liam Fox «can not support» plans to increase the aid budget to 0.7 % of gross national income, he has said.

Also included in the budget is a plan to buy the city's streetlights from National Grid and funds to increase security and maintenance in the downtown area.

The second Budget also increased funding for the National Health Service, more apprenticeships, efforts to increase productivity and cuts to the welfare bBudget also increased funding for the National Health Service, more apprenticeships, efforts to increase productivity and cuts to the welfare budgetbudget.

And while the US increased its aid budget by 14 per cent, it remains one of the lowest donors, contributing just 0.19 per cent of its gross national income, compared to 0.33 per cent in the UK and 0.38 per cent in France.

And today's Budget, in which the Chancellor said he was going to «level with» Britain, acknowledges as much by adopting a version of Labour's plan on National Insurance and by increasing the spending on infrastructure too.

After Hammond's Budget this spring descended into farce over a U-turn on increasing National Insurance payments, a Treasury official told the Telegraph:

Andy Bagnall, director at KPMG, comments on the increase in national minimum wage and national living wage at the Budget by the Chancellor.

The ministers of Budget and National Planning, Mr Udoma Udoma, disclosed this to State House Correspondents at the end of the two - day National Economic Council Retreat in Abuja, adding that the Federal Government was looking at immediate possible ways to increase government's revenues.

The ratings from the National Federation of Independent Business especially hit the Republican - led Senate, where the GOP conference out of solidarity approved a budget bill containing the minimum wage increase after a contentious internal debate.

Speaking at post budget analysis programme organized by the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce, Professor Bokpin warned that the instability of the cedi should tell government that the increase for import goods must be reduced.

But in a sign of his increasing concern about the future of the national and global economy, de Blasio said he considering instituting some kind of forcible savings or PEG program in his executive budget, which will be released in May.

The National Chairman of Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Chief Peter Ameh, said National Assembly did no wrong in increasing 2018 Budget from N8.61 trillion to N9.12 trillion.

«Thus, in a press statement credited to the National Assembly last week, it was reported that «The Federal High Court has ruled that the National Assembly has the power to increase or review upward the budget estimates laid before it by the executive».

He contended that nowhere in the judgment did the court say «that the National Assembly has the power to increase or insert new items, like constituency projects, into the budget estimates contained in any Appropriation Bill or Supplementary Bill prepared and submitted to it by the President.»

Even so, the increase for nondefense discretionary spending — a category that covers just about every research agency including NIH, NASA, and the National Science Foundation — is the largest since the original caps were first put in place in 2011 through the Budget Control Act.

A Senate spending panel today approved a tiny budget increase next year for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and flat funding for NASA — and congratulated themselves for doing so given a cap on overall domestic discretionary spending across the government.

Kerry backed the five - year doubling of the National Institutes of Health budget and recently supported a whopping 9.2 percent boost for the institutes when Bush proposed a 2.6 percent increase.

Dollars for basic research have increased 26 percent, and the budget for the National Institutes of Health completed a planned doubling — to $ 28 billion yearly — that began in the Clinton administration.

However, most science policy analysts are wringing their hands over the tiny increase sought for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a small rebound for the National Science Foundation (NSF) after a cut in 2005, and reductions in the science budgets at NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the departments of energy and defense.

Observers agreed that Congress was likely to try hard to hold the line against budget increases and to provide extra funding only for a small number of high national priorities.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will receive a budget of $ 30 billion, an increase of $ 150 million, losing ground after inflation.

► On Tuesday, David Malakoff and Jeffrey Mervis presented a first look at the budget, noting that NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) would receive small increases, while the research budget of the Department of Energy would remain flat.

• On Tuesday, Jeffrey Mervis reported that buried inside the White House's essentially flat budget proposal for the National Science Foundation (NSF) is a $ 2000 a year increase in stipends for the agency's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

The biggest civilian science funders — the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science — would all get budget increases that would not keep pace with inflation.

Increases for science and technology in the 2012 US budget prioritize innovation over reductions in the national deficit.

Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TX) opened the hearing by telling the panel to «finish the job» and increase the budgets for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy's Office of Science, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Along with the news that a Senate spending subcommittee today approved a paltry $ 46 million budget increase for the National Science Foundation (NSF) for fiscal year 2017 came what appears to be a bright spot for ocean science.

Similarly, the President's mandatory spending proposal for 2017 would increase the National Science Foundation's R&D budget by 6.7 %, but only by 1.3 % without mandated investments.

Leech, director of the Biomolecular Electronics Research Laboratory, at the National University of Ireland, Galway, added: «Even if, as claimed, this budget increases research funding, this does not bring us back to 2008 levels.»

President Barack Obama's budget proposal calls for increases in some fields of science, but in the wake of the stimulus bonanza, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), by far the largest supplier of grants that support postdocs, essentially returns to pre-stimulus funding levels with increases that cover only inflation.

Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania (D) appeared at the briefing to give I - SPY 2 his blessing and remind people that he's pushing to increase the annual budget of the National Institutes of Health from $ 30 billion to $ 40 billion.

Although Congress and the White House agreed in 2002 to double the budget of the National Science Foundation over five years, annual budget increases so far are too small to meet that goal.

Since 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared a «war on cancer,» the annual budget for the National Cancer Institute has increased from $ 250 million to $ 5 billion.

The $ 7.04 billion President Barack Obama has requested for the National Science Foundation in 2010 is a 8.5 % increase to the $ 6.5 billion it received for this year, and concurrent with the Administration's promise of a decade - long budget doubling.

President Barack Obama's 2010 budget request would give the National Institutes of Health an increase of $ 443 million to $ 31.0 billion, a 1.4 % raise over 2009.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, which runs a network of 38 national labs, will get a 4.6 % increase, in line with orders it received last year to self - finance half its budget within the next 2 to 3 years.

The National Institutes of Health, for example, gets $ 30.3 billion for this year — a 3 % increase from last year, an essentially flat budget.