Sentences with phrase «proposed budget slashes»

President Trump's recently proposed budget slashes $ 9 billion, or 14 %, from the Department of Education, while increasing funding for «school choice,» by $ 1.4 billion.

Q: We're hearing about the proposed budget slashes to NIH and NSF.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel drew the ire of Chicago's police union last year when he proposed slashing the police department's budget by $ 190 million, The Chicago Sun - Times reported.

President Donald Trump will propose beefing up military spending and slashing domestic programs and foreign aid in his fiscal year 2018 budget to be released on Thursday.

Infrastructure, we're going to start spending on infrastructure big, said Donald Trump days before he unveiled his $ 1.5 trillion infrastructure budget proposed by his administration, but as economists have pointed out, Trump's proposed budget requests only $ 200 billion in federal funds and slashes billions in transportation funding, billions more from water, energy.

The budget that President Donald Trump proposed Monday takes a hard whack at the poorest Americans, slashing billions of dollars from food stamps, public health insurance and federal housing vouchers, while trying to tilt the programs in more conservative directions.

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said the destruction wrought by Harvey underscores «the need for good government,» and shows «the president is just wrong with his budget,» in which Trump proposed slashing billions of dollars from federal agencies.

«The Ryan budget has entered into quite a debate, particularly among Catholics, in terms of the moral test and what is in that budget and what the budget proposes to slash.»

Still, the Council voted to amend her proposed budget, defunding the Land Bank and slashing overtime for cops and firefighters.

From May 9 to May 12, thousands of people will be speaking out against Mayor Bloomberg's proposed budget cuts that would slash funding for education and other vital services.

ALBANY - Gov. Cuomo will propose a slash - and - burn state budget plan Tuesday that reduces overall spending for the first time in nearly 15 years.

MANHATTAN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a plan to slash billions from the state's budget, including a 2 percent cut in Medicaid spending, a $ 1.5 billion reduction in school aid and nearly 10,000 state worker layoffs, according to a plan unveiled Tuesday.

The proposed cuts signal President Trump's pledge to slash domestic spending and boost the defense budget.

Financing public health work will be another of the agency's most pressing issues — even as the Trump administration has proposed significantly slashing the CDC's budget, including a 43 percent cut to its Public Health Emergency Preparedness program.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives recently proposed slashing NIST's budget to $ 733 million.

On the other hand, Mason says, the situation is far better than 14 months ago, when House appropriators proposed slashing DOE's science budget by 18 % for what was then left of fiscal year 2011, which ended 30 September.

The Trump administration proposed slashing the EPA's budget by 31 percent for fiscal year 2018, although Congress has so far extended existing funding levels through a series of short - term resolutions.

A White House document leaked this week suggests that, along with seeking to slash the EPA's overall budget, the Trump administration will also propose a sharp decrease in research funding and a 20 % reduction in the agency's staff of 15,000.

In its proposed FY2018 budget, the Trump administration called for slashing almost $ 10 billion in aid to K — 12 and higher education, potentially resulting in the elimination of afterschool programs, substantial cuts to career and technical education programs, fewer supports for teachers, and instability of the Pell Grant Program.

-- Trump's budget, which is unlikely to become reality as proposed, would also boost funding for school choice options, even as he proposes to slash education funding overall by 13 percent.

In fact, Trump's FY 2018 budget would slash many federal funding streams that could advance learning mindsets and skills, and the administration has proposed zeroing out programs such as 21st Century Community Learning Centers; reducing funding for Title IV, Part A Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants; and eliminating funding for Title II, Part A.

Outside of education, many cuts proposed in President Trump's fiscal year 2018 budget — including stripping funding for Medicaid, school breakfast and lunch programs, and short - term federal income assistance for low - income families — would slash much - needed services or leave states holding the bag.

TRUMP WANTS BOOST FOR SCHOOL CHOICE, CUTS TO STUDENT AID: The Trump administration today proposed a $ 9.2 billion cut to the Education Department's $ 68 billion budget — a move that seeks to slash the agency by 13 percent.

At the time of the meeting, the Trump administration had proposed slashing the federal education budget by 13.5 percent, a figure that would amount to more than $ 9 billion in cuts.

Instead of taking steps to strengthen public schools, and to ensure equity and access, she has proposed slashing budgets.

He is the «vice-chair» of the House Committee on Science (sic), Space (sic) and Technology (sic), which recently proposed slashing NASA's budget for climate change research.

Some of the proposals «highlights» include: (1) fully eliminating the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, slashing the $ 3.2 billion budget, and eliminating proposed advanced nuclear energy technology programs from the Office of Nuclear Energy; (2) eliminating the Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program; (3) cutting $ 1.59 billion from the Office of Science, including the elimination of two of the four Energy Innovation Hubs, elimination of the 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs), elimination of the Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists Program, and a broad range of other cuts to basic energy sciences; (4) eliminating the power marketing administrations; and (5) cutting the administration's FY2012 budget request for ARPA - E from $ 650 million to $ 300 million.

Between a research - gutting proposed budget, regulation - slashing executive orders, the appointment of climate change skeptics to head the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy, and bogus claims about vaccines, infectious diseases, and global warming, it's no secret that President Donald Trump has demonstrated indifference to empirical fact and hostility to the scientific community.

Ironically enough, since assuming his post, Pruitt has proposed slashing the FEMA budget by $ 667 million.

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