Sentences with phrase «political budget game»

State Sen. Tony Avella (D - Whitestone) said the state and city's political budget game has threatened the well - being of a small but popular senior center in College Point.

Not exact matches

The iCivics games consist of several modules that include citizenship and participation (Activate), The Constitution and Bill of Rights (Do I Have a Right, Immigration Nation, Argument Wars), budgeting (People's Pie), separation of power (Branches of Power), political campaigning (Win the White House), local government (Counties Work), the Executive branch (Executive Command), the Legislative branch (Lawcraft, Represent Me), and the Judicial Branch (We the Jury, Supreme Decision).

While those serving on the committees have the power to select winners and losers in the race for grants, the real power to direct research is political and is wielded by the bureaucrats who create the programmes, allocate budgets, appoint the committees and impose the rules of the funding game.

The budget process has become an ongoing game of political brinkmanship, with government shutdowns regularly threatened.

However, Governor Rauner's political games do not change the legal requirement for school districts to publish their budgets, even if Springfield hasn't enacted education funding for anyone.

Well, the political gridlock in Washington has led to a game of brinkmanship around the debt ceiling (which needs to be acted on in the next two weeks), a failure to pass a solid budget, and no consensus whatsoever about how to start reducing the deficit by either cutting spending or raising taxes.

Regardless of your own political beliefs, the fact that a big budget game from a major publisher was willing to make any kind political statement is deserving of respect.