Sentences with phrase «lowering federal deficits»

Who: The Blue Dogs What They Want: This group of about 50 House Democrats is dedicated to lowering federal deficits and creating greater health - care cost controls (though not necessarily reducing spending in their districts).

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Low rates could also help shrink the federal budget deficit by easing the government's borrowing costs and generating tax revenue from stronger growth, Bernanke argued.

For the first four months of fiscal year 2012 - 13 (April to July), the federal government posted a deficit of $ 3.0 billion, $ 2.9 billion lower than the $ 5.9 billion reported in the same period in 2011 - 12.

It should not have come to anyone's surprise that the announcement by the Prime Minister that the federal deficit for 2013 - 14 was $ 5.2 billion, substantially lower than the $ 16.6 billion forecast in the February 2014 budget.

Lowering taxes, shrinking the size of federal government and reducing the deficit were issues that played well in Mimi Walters» conservative Orange County district.

Independent groups like the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget anticipate the deficit will hit $ 1 trillion by next year, a record level at a time when unemployment is so low.

Reducing trade deficits, he has argued, will work in tandem with lowering taxes and reducing federal regulations to supercharge growth.

Lower tax receipts will combine with disaster recovery spending and the ongoing war in Iraq to accelerate deterioration in the federal deficit.

In its latest update, the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimated that the federal deficit could be about $ 5 billion lower.

It also includes cuts to non-defense spending designed to lower the federal budget deficit by more than $ 3 trillion over the next decade.

Ryan's advocacy for cutting taxes and trimming the deficit — he is the architect of the GOP's proposed federal budget — married with his willingness to talk about fiscal belt - tightening in moral terms and his low - key social conservatism speak to a political moment in which the economic concerns of the Tea Party and the social focus of the Christian right have merged into a relatively cohesive anti-Obama movement.

«She is encouraged that the Congressional Budget Office says the American Health Care Act will lower premiums by 10 percent, reduce the federal deficit by $ 337 billion, and lower taxes by $ 883 billion, providing significant tax relief for middle - income families and small business owners.

But it did provide talking points for House Republican leaders who need conservatives support to pass the measure: lower deficits, reduced federal spending and tax cuts.

The Congressional Budget Office says the American Health Care Act would reduce the federal deficit over the 2017 - 2026 period by $ 119 billion, but also leave 23 million Americans without insurance, while at the same time lower the average insurance premiums.

They agreed with the governor's view that the state will probably have to close a $ 4 billion deficit next year, due to lowered tax revenues and federal health care cuts.

While I am against raising taxes in general, if taxes need to be raised to create jobs, balance the budget and lower the deficit then those increases need to be done at the federal level and on the wealthiest Americans, not the middle class.

House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz of Berlin said, «A small projected deficit at this point is not totally unexpected, particularly with lower - than - anticipated federal funds coming in.

The automatic cuts to education and many other federal programs, known as «sequestration,» were intended as an incentive for lawmakers to reach an agreement on lowering the federal budget deficit by $ 1.2 trillion, but were triggered when Congress failed to do so in late 2011.

Also helpful for students will be the reinstatement of summer Pell grants, federal financial aid for low - income students, which President Obama ended four years ago as a wat to reduce the federal budget deficit.

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke explained how trade deficits required the US to borrow money from abroad, in the process bidding up bond prices and lowering interest rates.

As the Federal Reserve welcomes a new chairman and the markets grapple with possible trade wars and a ballooning fiscal deficit, make a plan for what to do with a $ SPX chart at much lower levels.

So if a funding deficit arises in a TBP (because of underfunding, or lower - than - expected investment returns, say), part or all of it can be compensated for by reducing accrued benefits to employees whereas a traditional DB plan would require the entire deficit to be funded by increased contributions on the part of the employer — the federal government (and by extension, the taxpayer).

Rising interest rates alone would balloon the federal deficit, because interest payments on the massive outstanding government debt would skyrocket from today's artificially low levels.»

But it's gotten little traction until recently when both conservative and liberal economists have argued that a carbon tax could help cut the federal deficit and keep other taxes low.