Sentences with phrase «only cut federal spending»

By doing this one step we would not only cut federal spending (which seems nearly impossible and almost blasphemous for me to utter) but we would also level the playing field some for organic farming to gain more ground in the marketplace and make organic options more available for others.

Not exact matches

The final agreement not only burnishes Cuomo's liberal credentials by extending (though not expanding) the millionaire's tax, raising the age of criminal responsibility of New York and addressing the high cost of college tuition for members of the middle class, it also dramatically increases his (already considerable) budget powers, enabling him to single - handedly make spending cuts in the event of widely expected future federal funding reductions.

Only Assemblyman Andy Goodell, a Republican from Jamestown, brought up Part XXX — which contains language on page 269 granting the governor more power to adjust the state spending plan in response to federal cuts.

House Speaker John Boehner only mustered 28 Republican votes yesterday to extend the federal debt ceiling, without any accompanying demands for spending cuts.

In fact in FY 1996, nondefense discretionary spending was the only category of federal spending that both sides agreed to cut.

Federal R&D spending has remained essentially flat since 2005, and the 2011 Budget Control Act, a package of automatic spending cuts known as the «sequester,» only exacerbated that reality, she said.

But, if that's all true, then I'm wondering why those same voices have yet to speak up now — even if only to say, «We disagree vehemently with Secretary DeVos on school vouchers, cuts to federal spending, and the whole Trump agenda, but calling her a «white supremacist» is out of bounds and antithetical to what we believe in.»

Finally, Nicholas Pinter, a Southern Illinois University scientist studying flooding disasters, says Obama should consider broader shifts in the budget and bureaucracy at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which still is mainly focused on responding once a disaster has struck — with only 15 percent of its spending in such instances devoted to steps that can cut known vulnerability the next time around.