Sentences with phrase «of federal outlays»
The discretionary budget — the part of the budget Congress has to allocate annually through the appropriations process — only represents about a third of all federal outlays, but contains virtually all science and technology spending.
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The February federal budget deal, meanwhile, hikes outlays in both of the two categories of «discretionary» spending, defense and federal programs from foreign aid to housing subsidies, by an unprecedented 12 %, or $ 150 billion a year in 2018 and 2019.
A number of sensible voices in Washington, though, are warning that American hasn't yet felt the brunt of the 2013 sequester because many of those cuts haven't even begun to affect federal agencies» actual outlays in many cases.
Specifically, a very rapid expansion in higher education in the United States took place during the 1 960s, and it did so not by some strange magic in the modernization process itself but as a result of conscious planning and huge outlays by the federal government.
The changing composition of the federal budget from discretionary to mandatory outlays bears this out.
(The caps apply only to so - called discretionary spending, which accounts for about one - third of annual federal outlays, but not to so - called mandatory programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, that account for about two - thirds of annual spending.)
Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are pitching hugely expensive «free college» plans as a move toward a «new federalism,» in which hundreds of billions in conditional federal outlays would be used to entice states to spend more and obey new federal rules.
(18) SUBSIDY AMOUNT. - The term «subsidy amount» means the amount of budget authority sufficient to cover the estimated long - term cost to the Federal Government of a Federal credit instrument» (A) calculated on a net present value basis; and» (B) excluding administrative costs and any incidental effects on governmental receipts or outlays in accordance with the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.).»
A drawback of this option is that some households would not receive as much assistance for educational expenses unless federal outlays for education assistance were increased.