Sentences with phrase «multi-billion dollar deficit»

Senator John DeFrancisco predicts cutbacks in healthcare spending to help close a multi-billion dollar deficit.

The biggest risks, Lhota warned, involve the city's budget, which faces a multi-billion dollar deficit and expired contracts with municipal unions.

«With revenues falling and a multi-billion dollar deficit looming, it's prudent to begin looking closely at the City's budget now,» she said in a statement.

In the past, Cuomo has said he would like to spend more money, but New York had a multi-billion dollar deficit.

The budget builds on the Governor's record of fiscal responsibility by closing a multi-billion dollar deficit with no new taxes, fees or gimmicks.

He's seen Paterson undermine his own plan that calls for more executive power and borrowing to make up the multi-billion dollar deficit.

Last year, de Blasio asked the Legislature for $ 300 million in new funding to help make capital improvements at the New York City Housing Authority, the crumbling system of public housing with a multi-billion dollar deficit.

The law, which was passed in 2010, withheld aid to school districts to help close New York State's multi-billion dollar deficit.

The law, which reduces the amount of state aid received by school districts, was first imposed in the 2010 to help close New York State's multi-billion dollar deficit by taking funding away from schools.

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As President Obama fully understands, New York and many other states are working hard to address multi-billion dollar deficits.

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'' The next two years will provide no shortage of challenges for our Conference, its partners in government and all New Yorkers: A multi-billion dollar budget deficit needing closure, a government that is still too big and spends too much, chronic unemployment, some of the nation's highest taxes and a continued lack of public confidence in state government,» Kolb said.

«I'm running for the state senate to take on the rampant corruption in Albany and the fiscal mismanagement that has produced a multi-billion dollar budget deficit and the highest taxes in the nation,» Schorr said.

Monday was the first full day of session in the New York State legislature, and lawmakers have a lot to contend with, including a multi-billion dollar budget deficit.

Senate Finance Committee Chair Cathy Young says even though there's a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and that «budget circumstances may be tough,» she says the GOP will resist any potential efforts by Democrats to roll back the middle class tax cuts that are to be phased in over the next several years.

Cuomo says with a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and uncertainties in funding from Washington, spending needs to be lower this year.

County Executives across New York are projecting a collective multi-billion dollar budget deficit starting at the beginning of 2012.

«The Council also continues to emphasize that, with multi-year, multi-billion (dollar) budget deficits, New York needs to more fully examine its spending practices, especially in major programs such as Medicaid and education, and determine why are our costs are so much higher than other states without the results to match,» said Business Council President Heather Briccetti.

Senate Finance Committee Chair Cathy Young says even though there's a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and that «budget circumstances may be tough,» the GOP will resist any potential efforts by Democrats to roll back the middle class tax cuts that are to be phased in over the next several years.

He also reflects on the Governor's first year in office and talks about some of the challenges in the year ahead including a potential multi-billion dollar budget deficit.

«Gov. Cuomo should explain why his regressive tax reform, which cuts taxes for the wealthiest should be adopted when it will actually cause a a multi-billion dollar budget deficit.