Sentences with phrase «on slashing budgets»

Governments had to react quickly and drastically, and in most cases relied heavily on slashing budgets.

Trump plans on slashing the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by a quarter — targeting enforcement, grants for toxic cleanup efforts, as well as air and water protection programs.

Not exact matches

President Trump's budget for 2018 will slash funding on everything from Big Bird to foreign aid, while boosting support for the Pentagon and the construction of a border wall, the White House said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump will propose beefing up military spending and slashing domestic programs and foreign aid in his fiscal year 2018 budget to be released on Thursday.

As California slashes billions from its higher education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly focused its efforts on raising private dollars.

On Monday, fellow oilsands heavyweight Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX: CNQ) announced it would slash its 2015 budget, also announced in November, by 28 per cent.

(Reuters)- Chevron Corp (CVX.N) is slashing 10 percent of its workforce and sharply paring back its budget, with Chief Executive Officer John Watson giving a downbeat view on Friday of an industry beleaguered by low oil prices.

Infrastructure, we're going to start spending on infrastructure big, said Donald Trump days before he unveiled his $ 1.5 trillion infrastructure budget proposed by his administration, but as economists have pointed out, Trump's proposed budget requests only $ 200 billion in federal funds and slashes billions in transportation funding, billions more from water, energy.

In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

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.

It won't be pretty for prices down the road and it will come as a result of capital budgets getting slashed based on artificially depressed prices.

The March on Science will take place in D.C. this weekend, in which scientists, science advocates and nerds in general will descend on the nation's capital to protest slashed budgets...

Among other proposals, the budget would slash of one - third of Environmental Protection Agency's discretionary budget, totally eliminate the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, and end the grants that currently fund food assistance to the elderly via Meals on Wheels.

But the # 1 million spent on this in 2010 was slashed to zero, before restoring around # 100,000 to the budget.

My priorities will be to slash wasteful federal spending, set our nation on a path to a balanced budget, end bailouts for bad business decisions, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit, and repeal Obamacare.

In response to falling income from its leading sector, the government slashed its 2015 national budget by 25 per cent, squeezing further an economy that relies heavily on public cash.

The governor again called on lawmakers to slash state spending and predicted the failure to do so on the local level would lead voters to reject school budgets across the state today.

«To Peter Grant I make this pledge: I will work with you in your role as council leader to do the best I can with you on behalf of the constituents and I pledge my support for you if you stand up to the SNP government in Edinburgh to tell them to stop slashing budgets across Scotland.

The mayor warned that Trump's push to block Washington dollars from reaching cities offering haven to undocumented immigrants would «first and foremost fall on the NYPD» — slashing more than $ 150 million a year from the police department's budget, most of it counter-terrorism funding.

On a host of other issues, Anderson lists noticeably to the right of Nader, despite praiseworthy planks such as raising the minimum wage to ten dollars per hour and slashing the Pentagon budget by 50 percent.

MANHATTAN — Deep cuts announced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday will slash $ 1.6 billion from the city's budget, eliminating thousands of jobs and reducing services across the city.

He said: «This negative budget is why if you go to the MoD today you will find blood on the floor as the defence programme is slashed to meet the desperate funding situation.»

Not many Lib Dems went into politics to slash the size of the state, yet that's exactly what the coalition government will do on October 20th when it unleashes details of a comprehensive spending review set to cut most government departments» budgets by at least 25 %.

Leading universities want the cap on tuition fees to be lifted amid fears that higher education budgets may be slashed this summer.

Another chieftain of the group, Ayo Opadokun, said in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital on Saturday, that the slash in the budget would affect the completion of the project.

If state lawmakers think today's vote on slashing hundreds of millions of dollars in health - care spending from the state budget is a tough one, wait until next Monday.

Cannon, 62, a longtime West Ender and ex-mayoral candidate with a background in municipal finance, tells voters he would be a «fresh voice» on the board and suggests slashing «bloated» administrative costs to help pay for school programs that budget cuts have phased out.

The move comes after Mr Miliband, 41, launched a new attack on Chancellor George Osborne's decision to slash 20 % from forces» budgets.

MANHATTAN — The Bloomberg administration has put city agencies on alert that they must slash another two percent from their budgets this year, and a whopping six percent in 2013, to cope with a «dire financial situation.»

The collapse of the bipartisan congressional supercommittee's effort to agree on a plan to slash the federal budget deficit isn't just a defeat for congressional Republicans who, as AFT President Randi Weingarten said, «insisted on protecting the 1 percent from any additional taxes.»

«We are urging the governor to look for ways to raise revenues to balance the state budget, instead of slashing more funds from the State University of New York on top of the $ 148 million already slashed this year.

Governor Dannel P. Malloy used his executive authority on Wednesday to make $ 65 million in budget cuts, including millions from day and residential programs for people with disabilities, to help slash Connecticut's $ 220 million deficit.

Addressing Albany legislators at a joint budget hearing of the Senate and Assembly on Jan. 25, Bloomberg said that unless state cuts are reversed, he would have no choice but to slash the city work force by 19,000, including 8,500 teachers.

Anticipating the mayor's austerity executive budget that if approved would slash education and social services while leaving the wealth of city banks, corporations and rich New Yorkers untouched, the UFT joined progressive City Council members and a coalition of unions, community groups and nonprofit service providers at City Hall on May 4 to release an alternative «people's budget.»

He has every right to do so but, I think his ideas, which adopt a lot of the Washington Republican ideas like the Ryan budget that would slash Medicaid and other things we depend on in New York just don't make sense for our state,» says Maloney.

The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation have estimated the bill would slash federal deficits by $ 337 billion between 2017 - 26.

He secured a new source of revenue, and can keep his pledge to increase spending on health care and education after slashing those parts of the budget last year.

The Mail on Sunday, used the headline: «David Cameron the milk snatcher»: Government plan to slash school milk budget», which quickly prompted comment from Shadow Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, with a reference to Thatcher:

The city has recently slashed the number of bed bug inspectors and pest control aides on staff due to budget cuts.

Unfortunately, the Office of Naval Research's budget was recently slashed, and Cranford's project was one of those that landed on the cutting - room floor.

In a widely anticipated move that has already raised alarm bells at research institutes, a White House budget document states that «significant reductions» will come from slashing the overhead payments that NIH now pays to universities on top of the direct research costs for a project.

This summer a federally funded panel will conclude a study on the proper «role and size» of its 60 - member astronaut corps, perhaps recommending layoffs or slashing training budgets.

In November, a task force set up to identify fat in the budget recommended freezing spending on the supercomputer pending a review, shrinking JAMSTEC's budget 10 % to 20 %, and slashing funding for SPring - 8 by one - to two - thirds.

On the other hand, Mason says, the situation is far better than 14 months ago, when House appropriators proposed slashing DOE's science budget by 18 % for what was then left of fiscal year 2011, which ended 30 September.

Soon after its election in 2010, the governing coalition froze the science budget and slashed capital spending on research infrastructure.

Slashed Beauty is all about beauty on a budget.

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A hearty collection of deleted and extended scenes, 25 minutes worth, seems to run counter to the assertions of slashed scheduling and fine - tooth comb budget consciousness that Zombie mentions in his audio commentary track (more on that in a moment), but you have that material if you want it; a lot of it is of the slightly tweaked variety, with a couple clipped, inessential (often vulgar) dialogue exchanges within a given scene.

This meant making a superhero movie on a very small budget — and one slashed at the last second at that.

«Budgets are being slashed and overall market uncertainty is having a hugely detrimental impact on the standards of education being delivered to students.