Sentences with phrase «reduction in federal spending»

Overall, evangelicals were more likely to favor reductions in federal spending, but like other Americans, they wanted...

This week, their plight is getting a bit tougher as the government cuts their unemployment benefits — part of the automatic reductions in federal spending that took effect recently.

The bi-partisan congressional super committee was formed as a means explore reductions in federal spending, but has been having a hard time agreeing on cuts.

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And to make matters worse, it's not really a cut, as a reduction in spending, but just a cut in the rate of growth of federal spending.

Those projected surpluses are a bit of a patch job, held together by baling wire and duct tape: they depend on some conveniently timed asset sales (e.g., the divestment of the federal government's GM holdings) a delayed reduction in EI contribution rates — and continued spending restraint.

The final agreement not only burnishes Cuomo's liberal credentials by extending (though not expanding) the millionaire's tax, raising the age of criminal responsibility of New York and addressing the high cost of college tuition for members of the middle class, it also dramatically increases his (already considerable) budget powers, enabling him to single - handedly make spending cuts in the event of widely expected future federal funding reductions.

So, to recap: The congresswoman is seeking more spending by the federal government here in New York to help with the post-Irene recovery — a move that would, if she and Cantor had their way, require additional cuts at a time when Washington is already polarized over reductions mandated by the debt ceiling deal passed early this month.

Taking that difference into account, and even possible reductions in economic activity (mentioned in Avi's answer), do not exceed projected discretionary spending in coming federal budget years.

Testimony includes: recommendations for the 2014 - 2015 state fiscal year; review of actual and proposed reductions in human services spending; use of federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funding in the 2014 - 2015 Executive Budget; and, the impact of decline in the purchasing power of the monthly cash assistance grant.

Others say the Pentagon is simply using the hearings to pressure Congress into rolling back the Budget Control Act of 2011, the law that set federal spending caps in order to achieve a $ 1.2 trillion deficit reduction over 10 years.

Holt pointed to the far - reaching implications of the proposed reductions in non-defense discretionary spending for science and engineering programs spread across the federal government.

There are other ways to try to create incentives for greater support of science by industry, by philanthropy; and those ought to be pursued too because I think the record shows that we simply can't depend entirely on the Federal government — especially in view of the kind of fluctuations that result from either depressions in the national treasury; that result from reductions and tax revenues; or the expenditures sometimes unexpected like Katrina; or unfortunate expenditures like the ones we are spending now in Iraq.

While NASA's $ 200 million funding reduction pales in comparison to cuts that would face some federal agencies under the proposed budget (which has to be reviewed and approved by Congress before becoming official), it would make significant changes to how those dollars are spent.

Three specific events triggered the 2012 crisis: an abrupt reduction in federal and state funding (see Figure 1), the inability of the district to cut many of its costs, and political pressures on the district to spend available revenues in a given year.

The administration's FY2018 budget went further, targeting reductions in federal education spending totaling $ 9 billion, which would have amounted to a 13 percent cut in the DOE's $ 68 billion annual budget.

Attached to the treats was a letter claiming that 4 million cookies would have to be sold at that price to replace proposed reductions in federal education spending.

The proposed spending reductions represent the deepest cuts to federal juvenile justice funding in more than a decade.

As Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa recently observed, the proposed 2017 - 2018 cuts represent the largest proposed reduction to federal education spending «since President Ronald Reagan sought a 35.7 percent cut to the department in his proposed 1983 budget.»

Obama recommended a minuscule reduction in testing, Arne Duncan soon will be spending «more time with his family,» and part of the abusive use of federal power in education will be dumped into the laps of the states.

Sequestration: What Southern California Stands to Lose The Southland is bracing for massive cuts in federal spending at the end of the week, with education and airport officials in particular worried about the impact of the impending reductions.

While a projected 25 % reduction in the budget deficit for fiscal 2010 - 11 may have given the federal government «wiggle room» to undertake new spending measures beneficial to families and individuals, investors were not so lucky.

According to a report in the Globe and Mail, next week's highly anticipated federal budget should only contain «modest» spending reductions and little to no intervention in the housing market.

Here in Australian, the federal government is spending tens of billions of dollars on stimulus package after stimulus package, and tiny fractions of that (mainly at the instigation of Greens senators who are using their balance of power for leverage) are going towards emissions reduction.

In a year fraught with tension over the federal budget and deficit reduction, the White House might have opted to forgo a battle over directed spending.

The bill calls for no reduction in overall federal spending on women's health, according to a statement from Ernst's office.

«We've seen a 3.6 % reduction in smoking rates over that time yet the Federal Budget has reduced spending on closing the gap anti-smoking initiatives,»