Sentences with phrase «of deep spending cuts»

However, in the wake of his defeat in the referendum on the voting system, the Lib Dem leader is anxious to avoid seeming obsessed with constitutional matters at a time of deep spending cuts.

Ed Miliband is warning Britons to be braced for the pain of deep spending cuts — and accuses Coalition ministers of being callous in how they wield the axe.

Not exact matches

And Trump's policies to date — a combination of deep tax cuts and sharp spending increases — are shortening the fuse on that fiscal time bomb, by dramatically widening the already unsustainable gap between revenues and outlays.

As part of that bigger deal, he said, Republicans would be open to additional revenue, so long as it was paired with deep spending cuts and didn't come from higher tax rates.

They called for immediate steps to reopen banks and said any deal must address debt sustainability - code for reducing Athens» crushing debt - but gave no hint of concessions from the Greek side towards its creditors» demands for deep spending cuts and far - reaching reforms of pensions and labour markets.

The country has been keeping afloat with the help of multi-billion euro rescue loans from its European partners and the IMF, released on condition of tough spending cuts and deep structural reforms.

It is you who have lost your way in a relationship that's offered more hurt than love, in a job that leaves you depleted and spent, or in the guilt of not being good enough, pretty enough or smart enough for someone whose judgment cuts deep.»

We support a balanced budget, but to do so will require deep cuts in the mandatory spending that account for two - thirds of federal spending — not much smaller discretionary accounts like foreign assistance, which represents less than two - thirds of one percent of the budget.

Big firms are able to afford expensive advisors, consultants and lawyers, while HMRC has few staff members with deep knowledge of tax affairs and stands to lose employees and funding as spending cuts bite in the new year.

In those more recent fiscal squeezes, year - to - year cuts in public spending have been notably less deep than those imposed after both world wars or the «Geddes Axe» cuts initiated by the Conservative - Liberal coalition of the early 1920s.

Turner told me in an interview Tuesday morning that while he voted for the latest version of the Paul Ryan budget — which includes deep cuts to socials service spending — he expects a compromise on revenue - generators might be needed.

From the individual voter's point of view, spending cuts that affect others seem necessary and unavoidable, while those affecting him or her are too deep and too quick.

The Department for Environment and Rural Affairs is facing deep cuts as part of the spending review settlement - with critics arguing that savings are being made from cutting vital flood defences.

ALBANY, NY (03/02/2011)(readMedia)-- Sixteen New Yorkers were arrested today in the first major act of civil disobedience since Governor Cuomo took office during a protest of his corporate - backed agenda of tax cuts for millionaires and deep spending cuts to healthcare, education and social services.

Here's NYS Association of Counties Executive Director Stephen Acquario chatting with CapTon's Liz A. after the budget address yesterday and offering some advice to everyone who was, essentially, freaking out over the deep spending cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The work and pensions secretary left open the possibility of moves against the elderly after days of buildup to today's Commons vote on deep cuts to welfare spending for those of working age.

[71][87] Support for Labour slumped during the recession, and the general election of 2010 resulted in a coalition government being formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which made deep spending cuts in order to ease the budget deficit.

The IFS said that the Conservative plans to get rid of «the bulk» of the deficit over the course of the next parliament will involve the biggest spending cuts since the second world war, while Labour and Lib Dem plans will result in deeper cuts that at any time since the 1970s.

To those familiar with the script, this will be of little consequence; assume greater and deeper spending cuts, lower than expected growth and a failure to meet projected forecasts.

The letter takes issue with Cuomo's deep health care and education spending cuts while giving wealthy New Yorkers a «massive tax break» by allowing the temporary three - year PIT increase to expire on schedule at the end of this year.

The deep education spending cuts states have enacted will weaken that future workforce by diminishing the quality of elementary and high schools.

Late last month we found 79 %, little changed on the 77 % recorded in June 2009, backing the protection of spending on some services even if that means bigger rises in taxation and / or deeper cuts elsewhere.

It's a first salvo in what's expected to be a protracted budget battle as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gears up to fulfill his pledge to make deep spending cuts — most likely by goring the ox of some heretofore sacred cows, including the public employee unions and education aid.

Here's the full text of Cuomo's e-mail, which was forwarded by a reader (interestingly, it speaks in very general terms about the budget and «realigning» spending, but makes no mention of the deep education and health care cuts, which opponents say will lead to service reductions):

«It is astonishing that at a time when millions of families and pensioners are being hit hard by deep spending cuts and tax rises, the first priority of David Cameron's restless Tory backbenchers is unfair tax cuts only for a few,» Labour Treasury spokesman David Hanson said.

Like Littlewood and others, he favours a more authentically bold approach, a «rescue plan for the country» involving much deeper spending cuts, a loosening of the planning system and reduced employee protections.

He also launched a scathing attack on the Tories, branding their plans for deeper spending cuts after the election «slashing for its own sake», and complaining that the prospect of a referendum on EU membership is undermining business confidence.

Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are ready to break a hard - fought budget deal with Democrats as they try to quell a revolt by conservatives who are insisting on deeper spending cuts ahead of the November elections.

Rep. Josh Elliott, one of the chamber's most liberal Democrats, told The Courant that he is still undecided because the House Democratic budget has deep spending cuts and no income tax increases on the state's wealthiest citizens.

ELIZABETHTOWN — President Trump's budget blueprint calls for deep cuts in domestic programming in favor of steep increases in defense spending.

«Whilst Gordon Brown's NHS cuts bite deep in local maternity services and A&E s, millions of pounds are being spent on bankrolling Tony Blair's vast entourage of staff and spin doctors,» said shadow constitutional affairs secretary Oliver Heald.

This, The Sunday Times tells us, «is higher than the 49.7 % peak reached when Denis Healey had to turn to the IMF for help in 1976, and underlines the scale of the crisis in the public finances and the even deeper cuts in spending that will be needed after the election.»

WASHINGTON — Meals on Wheels of Syracuse would lose almost one - third of its annual budget under President Donald Trump's budget blueprint that calls for deep cuts to domestic spending.

Hundreds protested Cuomo's cuts, some were arrested, an intensity of unrest unseen in Albany since Republican Gov. George Pataki made deep budget cuts in hard times in the 1990s, after a campaign that called for an end to tax - and - spend Mario Cuomo.

Democrats need 17 seats to regain control of the House this November and entered the race this spring with email blasts painting both GOP candidates as enemies of the middle class, women and senior citizens, hinging them to the Ryan Budget, a blueprint would seek to erase the deficit with deep cuts in domestic spending.

Michael Gove's education department will make deep cuts to # 13.9 bn of centrally - funded programmes in next week's spending review to help pay for top - up payments for poorer pupils.

While the Trump Administration has proposed deep cuts to nondefense discretionary spending to allow a defense increase, that approach has been widely rejected, if for no other reason than it would require the politically impossible hurdle of 60 votes in the Senate.

Mulvaney is part of a coalition that has fought for deep cuts to discretionary spending.

The good news for the research community is that the 211 - to - 198 vote by the House largely rejects deep cuts to science programs proposed by President Donald Trump earlier this year — and even calls for spending increases at a few agencies, including $ 1.1 billion more for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Representative Harold Rogers (R - KY), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, is proposing deep budget cuts in some agencies as part of an overall Republican plan to trim federal spending.

U.S. government climate and environmental research programs and the Smithsonian Institution would see deep budget cuts under a 2014 spending proposal approved today by a U.S. House of Representatives panel.

Yesterday, the science committee of the U.S. House of Representatives approved, on a party - line vote, a Republican - backed bill that calls for deep cuts in spending on earth science.

Today, the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives passed a spending bill that wouldn't cut quite as deep — just 6.4 % — but that's not doing much to dull the pain.

To isolate the effect of the recessionary spending cuts from that of the general ill - effects of the recession, Cora Wigger, Heyu Xiong and I rely on the fact that states that relied heavily on state taxes to fund public schools experienced the deepest education revenue cuts during the recession, on average.

Emergency fiscal aid from the federal government helped prevent even deeper cuts but ran out before the economy recovered, and states chose to address their budget shortfalls disproportionately through spending cuts rather than a more balanced mix of service cuts and revenue increases.

Indeed, the majority has called in the past for a cut of $ 1 trillion in NDD funding.100 At the federal level, NDD spending is poised to be at its lowest, as a percent of GDP, since 1962, the lowest point on record.101 With states still struggling to stabilize their budgets after the 2008 recession, a deep cut in NDD would halt positive momentum toward recovery.

«California already spends less per pupil than almost every state in the country and deeper cuts to our schools will only put the futures of more children at risk.

Although public schools may still feel the repercussions from the 2008 recession, federal data showed a significant upsurge in state and local education spending in the 2014 - 15 school year — an increase that, if it persists, could eventually restore four earlier years of deep budget cuts, according to an analysis by The Hechinger Report.

Sequestration — deep, across - the - board cuts to nearly all federal spending — is a major component of the triple - threat fiscal cliff, which also includes the expiration of both the Bush - era tax cuts and the temporary payroll tax holiday.

One of the world's most successful college dropouts is making the case that even amid deep state spending cuts, schools can improve student performance by focusing on teacher quality instead of paying educators based on seniority and advanced degrees.