Sentences with phrase «plugging budget holes»

«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.)

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The letter goes on to say that Chancellor George's Osborne's proposed emergency budget to plug the» # 30 billion ($ 43 billion) black hole» in the wake of a Brexit was «ludicrous,» and «scaremongering born of desperation.

With Albany looking at another $ 9 billion budget gap to plug next year, the cycle of transit raids blowing a hole in the MTA budget is primed to start all over again.

The state's Essential Plan, which covers low - income New Yorkers, is projected to run a hefty surplus, which Cuomo is using to plug holes elsewhere in his budget.

This isn't the first time a governor moved money from the RGGI fund to help plug holes elsewhere in the budget.

(Once those budget holes are plugged, however, additional money can be spent at the mayor's discretion.)

What started out as a small, off - budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical education as New York hospitals deregulated in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion - dollar all - purpose revenue fund that supports dozens of public health programs, and plugs billion - dollar holes in the state's general budget.

So when one line within that budget is found to have a surplus of nearly $ 140 million — even though it's a fund reserved for county residents» most valuable resource — borrowing from it with the explicit agreement that it will be paid back beats plugging a hole with debt payments, plus interest.

New York trails other states in modernizing its 911 systems to handle greater cellphone use, in part because lawmakers routinely divert money intended for that purpose and use it to plug holes in the state budget.

Defence budgets will always be under pressure, but the situation has been made worse by the recent revelations that despite Hammond's efforts to plug the UK MoD's budget «black hole» — defence is still set to suffer deep cuts.

The Assembly approved it in November of that year in a special session to plug a $ 315 million budget hole.

Business groups are questioning the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's plan to plug a looming $ 680 million hole in the state's road budget.

State Senator Neil Breslin appeared with Assembly members Pat Fahy and John McDonald, in a show of support for Mayor Sheehan, who implored all city residents, state workers and politicians to blitz state lawmakers in a fund drive of epic proportions to not only land the $ 12.5 million to plug the hole in Albany's budget, but also fix funding formulas so the mayor never needs to pick the tin cup again.

ALBANY — If the state is going to kick in to plug a hole in the city of Albany's budget, so too should the city's nonprofit institutions.

While the executive proposal includes $ 200 million in funding to address the opioid crisis, it does not prevent the state from using the existing funds designated for these programs to plug other holes in the budget, according to Bill Hammond, health policy analyst at the Empire Center for Fiscal Policy, a conservative - leaning think tank.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have reacted with concern to reports that money meant to support disadvantaged children is being used to plug holes in school budgets.

The budget he delivered this week is chock full of accounting gimmicks and plugging holes with one time funding sources.

The Minority Caucus's resolution states that the proposed bill acts as a «cash grab to plug a hole in the New York State budget as an alternative to cutting spending.»

Suffolk County lawmakers are set to approve a $ 2.8 billion budget tomorrow that, according to some, raids an environmental protection fund to plug holes in the county budget.

Gregory (D - Amityville) said that while Bellone has not yet proposed a way to plug the hole, he expects the issue to arise when budget analysts update lawmakers on the county's finances in May.

«The budget director is running amok, and midnight raids on our bank accounts are not responsible government,» said Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, whose office now has to plug a $ 200,000 hole.

[needs update] The job losses would account for some of the cuts announced under the defence review — intended to help plug the # 38 billion hole in the defence budget.

Walker argues he wants concessions to start immediately to help the state plug an estimated $ 3.3 billion two - year budget hole.

The cuts to education proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to help plug a huge hole in California's fiscal 2009 budget won't be as deep as the $ 4.8 billion originally projected for K - 12 schools, under a revised plan he announced May 14.

The moves Tuesday come as legislators seek ways to plug a $ 563 million budget hole.

Labour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said: «The Tories would take away infant free school meals in order to plug the massive holes left by their cuts in school budgets.

First, the CTU and its backers are sure that the $ 665 million hole in the budget, that the school board intends to cover by draining its cash reserves, is easily plugged and in fact may be manufactured by CPS: «my biggest worry», said one commenter, «is that you use all of these reserve funds and you hit zero next year so that you use that rationale to say «we don't have any more money»».

Use cash to plug up the holes I assume every family budget has holes in it.

Public museums struggle these days to plug leaks and budget holes.

In Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee (D) has proposed a $ 25 - per - ton carbon tax to help plug a hole in the state budget (Climatewire, Dec. 14, 2016).