Sentences with phrase «over federal spending»

Or do voters consider it a good starting point in the debate over federal spending?

Fighting over federal spending, even for disasters, is nothing new.

President Trump said the U.S. needed «a good «shutdown»» this fall to force a partisan confrontation over federal spending, and suggested that he might move to reverse longstanding Senate rules that effectively require a supermajority to approve most major pieces of legislation.

A growing rift among Senate Republicans over federal spending on Medicaid and the opioid epidemic is imperiling legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act that Senate leaders are trying to put to a vote by the end of next week.

Congress is in the midst of an ongoing discussion over federal spending, and Young said he doesn't see a budget agreement happening anytime soon.

The New York State Educational Conference Board, a coalition of state education organizations, is calling for a $ 2 billion increase in school aid in the 2018 - 19 state budget, despite a looming deficit and uncertainty over federal spending.

«I just know that we had a rather robust conversation down here in the first congressional district,» he added, referring to the debate over federal spending in Washington.

But it's «not something lawmakers are eager to approve,» he said, because it would take control over federal spending out of the hands of Congress.

«[P] olicymakers should consider separating NIH's budget from the broader» battles over federal spending, urges the report, Healthy Funding: Ensuring a Predictable and Growing Budget for the National Institutes of Health.

Paul made his case for the bill yesterday as chairperson of a Senate panel with oversight over federal spending.

lawmakers continue to haggle over federal spending and tax policy.

The so - called Rohrabacher - Farr amendment was passed as part of the broader resolution on the federal budget — and it could get tangled up once more in the upcoming fight over federal spending.

It sharpened a suggestion that Mr. Trump made early this year, in the wake of a budget agreement he grudgingly accepted even though it omitted money for the wall, that the United States needed «a good «shutdown»» this fall to force a partisan confrontation over federal spending.

President Barack Obama, balancing his blueprint to recalibrate the nation's economy against a looming confrontation with Republicans over federal spending, will use the issue of education to help frame the budget debate.

In addition, we may see some fiscal tightening this fall as the debate over federal spending and the debt ceiling takes place.»