Sentences with phrase «to plug budget holes»

We'll find out whether the new governor will continue Albany's practice of stealing dedicated transit funds to plug budget holes elsewhere, try again to reduce the state's meager contribution to student MetroCards to nothing, or decide instead -LSB-...]

For some Democrats in Connecticut, the idea is simple: hedge funds have the money and they already get a tax break, so the state could plug budget holes with a 19 percent surcharge on investment companies.

«If this money is simply plugging budget holes that's not something we are going to be interested in.»

Elsewhere, emerging market central banks and sovereign wealth funds have been selling reserves and risk assets to defend currencies and or plug budget holes.

Factcheck Please: The money can't be used to plug budget holes — it never would be $ 700 million for one state, and accepting it would cost districts more money.

(Back in the day, Gov. Mario Cuomo used it to plug budget holes, too.)

State pols will plug budget holes.

Now, the institution is coming under fire for pillaging its cultural assets to plug budget holes.

The new CES and accompanying legislation also propose ways to make the ratepayer funds destined for the Green Bank and for energy efficiency all or at least partially «raid - proof» so the legislature can't do what it did last session and swipe a hefty chunk of those funds to plug budget holes.