Sentences with phrase «national budget cuts»

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So this is a terrible time for the US to be signaling that it's seeking to cut foreign aid budget that is already only 0.2 % of US national income, less than 1 % of the federal budget.

The National Tertiary Education Union has argued that the impact of the federal budget cuts would leave Western Australia's universities almost $ 500 million worse off.

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.

It took some painful cuts and some reorganization of state agencies to balance the budget, and Texas is one of only seven states — mostly oil - producing ones — that saw revenues decline last year, according to the National Association of State Budget Offbudget, and Texas is one of only seven states — mostly oil - producing ones — that saw revenues decline last year, according to the National Association of State Budget OffBudget Officers.

«They've had cuts, significant cuts,» said John Hicks, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers.

The cuts (plus the lack of commensurate budget reductions) would add $ 6 trillion more to the national debt relative to baseline projections.

That spending recommendation — entitled «America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again» — would slash $ 5.8 billion, or about 18 %, from the annual outlay for the National Institutes of Health, and it would cut even more sharply from other programs within the Department of Health and Human Services.

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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.

The minister who took an axe to the CBC this week, cutting its funding by 10 per cent, unapologetically clung to the idea of being a champion of the arts on Thursday, touting a budget that slashed his own department's operations while shielding the Canada Council for the Arts, national museums and others from funding cuts.

The Liberal government spends only five per cent of the province's GDP on agri - food (far below the national average of 14 per cent), cut thesuccessful Buy B.C. program, and in 2009 cut theAgriculture and Lands budget by 25.4 per cent.

Yeah, I know he has Washington experience, but he has spent the last four years cutting taxes, balancing the budget, and presiding over a state with a lower - than the - national - average unemployment rate.

He won the Scottish Formula Ford title in 2007 and won several national championships before a lack of budget cut his stint in racing short, so he switched to sim racing.

And it seems as we travel around to state and national conferences to talk to our many friends in the recreation field, more and more we hear about budgets being cut, staff let go and recreation programs being forced to turn their programs over to volunteer based organizations simply because they have no other choice.

We can expect to inherit plans for further deep cuts to departmental budgets at a time when the deficit will still be very large and the national debt rising.

Schumer said the Trump administration's proposed 2018 budget would cut funding for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health by more than 40 percent.

«Congressman Paul Ryan and House Republicans today introduced a budget proposal which simplifies and cuts taxes while reducing our national debt.

The «pandering» line refers to Turner's unfortunate copping to «blatant pandering» in a National Journal (again) Review OpEd he wrote in June 2011 in which he called for an «end to government dependencies» and to «dramatically cut the budget by 30 to 35 %.»

MPs also raised concerns that the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre is having its budget cut by ten per cent over four years and warned that it could lose its focus when it is merged with the National Crime Agency.

Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng, a Democratic National Committee vice chair, at her roundtable on the impact that President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts will have on Queens.

In the beginning, the concern with national public spending, led to severe budget cuts in 2011 and 2012.

George Osborne has taken an early swipe at departmental budgets, announcing # 4.5 bn of savings this year through a sell - off of national assets — including the remaining stake in Royal Mail — and spending cuts.

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.

It provided the framework for the other correct polices that began to be laid out at the Labour Party conference — for example on the National Investment Bank, opposition to removing the budget deficit by cuts to welfare.

The National Security Council (NSC) are to discuss the impending cuts to the defence budget, amid fears that key programmes will be for the chop.

He's going to use the money from national insurance tweaks to implement «the largest tax cut in this Budget».

[26] At the time, many leftists were leaving in disgust at the Labour government's support for the U.S. in the Vietnam War, cuts to the National Health Service budget, and restrictions on trade unions; some joined far - left parties like the International Socialists or the Socialist Labour League, or single - issue groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Child Poverty Action Group.

National Republicans believe that in New York's 27th district, and across the country, a focus on the cuts to future Medicare spending embedded in the Affordable Care Act will inoculate their candidate from the attacks regarding the Ryan budget's changes to Medicare.

President Trump's recently released budget includes a drastic 16 % cut to the Department of the Interior, which oversees the National Park Service, and a 7 % cut to the park service itself.

Maloney says more work is needed to combat Lyme disease and other tick - borne illnesses — another reason not to cut funding to the National Institutes of Health, among cuts proposed in President Trump's 2018 budget.

Some of the Democratic committee chairmen were playing the «Washington Monument game» (a metaphor for phony budget cuts, in which the National Park Service, ordered to save money, announces that it is closing the Washington Monument).

Sen. Charles Schumer is criticizing a Trump administration proposal to cut the budget of the Office of National Drug Control policy by 95 percent.

Congress should heed the lessons of Hurricane Sandy and reverse a proposed $ 369 million cut to the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which provides satellite data to the National Weather Service, warned U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who said the reduction would put lives at risk.

Questions - EU nationals» access to UK benefits, BBC licence fee, hydration in hospitals, landlord and tenant legislation Legislation - health and social care bill Short debate - impact of budget cuts on the work of secure children's homes in reducing children's reoffending rates

Governor Paterson, who will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention, led the state legislature to commit to $ 1 billion in budget cuts over the next year and a half.

In a speech to Conservative conference, the culture secretary said National Lottery funding had protected «most budgets» despite cuts in taxpayer funding.

In our previous articles, while X-raying the 2016 budget proposals before the National Assembly, we had opined that the government should learn to cut its recurrent expenditure in line with the economic realities on the ground.

This is a national referendum on the Ryan medicare cuts in his budget.

You could sometimes get the impression from some national columnists that cutting the aid budget was the key to fiscal conservatism.

Katko said he supports the continued existence of arts and cultural agencies like the NEA and the National Endowment for the Humanities, though he could not say they would not face budget cuts.

NPR reported on a leaked draft document from the White House budget office that drastically cuts funding to the Office of National Drug Control Po...

A similar self - employed parent with a starting income of # 20,000 would see a cut of just over 12 % after the introduction of the controversial changes to national insurance contributions (NICs) in the spring budget, the figures showed.

Ornstein also predicted science programs will face significant budget cuts, including across - the - board reductions at the National Science Foundation, with social science research a particular target.

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The budget plan proposes steep cuts at the National Institutes of Health, which funds biomedical research conducted by the nation's leading colleges and universities.

HRSA denied a request from Science to interview the current head of the national program, but issued a statement in response to questions about the impact budget cuts might have on research.

To make up for a federal deficit of more than $ 400 billion, the White House has ordered most civilian research agencies to prepare for major budget reductions in the 2006 budget, including cuts for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

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.

President Donald Trump's first budget request to Congress, to be released at 7 a.m. Thursday, will call for cutting the 2018 budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $ 6 billion, or nearly 20 %, according to sources familiar with the proposal.

The National Nuclear Security Administration budget would grow 11.3 percent while the rest of the Energy Department's programs would be cut by 17.9 percent.