Sentences with phrase «skinny budget»

President Trump's so - called skinny budget calls for large budget cuts at the EPA, including a 31 percent reduction agencywide that will slash staff by 25 percent and eliminate 56 programs.

Mick Mulvaney, new director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told reporters yesterday that the so - called skinny budget fleshes out what the president promised during the campaign and since taking office.

It was a very lucrative thing for us to do — to spend a lot of time in the U.S. — but there were only a few of us, on a very skinny budget.

I'm making do with a super skinny budget but in my dreams it has lush draperies, custom bedding and awesome technology.

The so - called «skinny budget» also proposes eliminating international climate change programs, climate change research and partnership programs, as well as research funding and monies to clean up Superfund sites.

The Trump plan, also known as the skinny budget, calls for $ 54 billion in cuts to non-defense programs with a simultaneous $ 54 billion increase in defense spending.

Cole added that he was «disappointed» with Trump's 2018 proposal in his «skinny budget» released in March to cut NIH by 18 %.

Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D — CT) and Nita Lowey (D — NY) said the president actually wants to cut NIH's next budget by $ 8 billion, using as a baseline the amount that NIH had been appropriated for 2017 when the skinny budget was issued.

The request greatly expands on the «skinny budget» the administration released in March (SN: 4/15/17, p. 15).

But NSF never received a «landing team» from the incoming Trump administration and had no interactions with White House budget officials as the so - called skinny budget was assembled over the past few weeks.

For starters, the information presented in the budget summary, dubbed the «skinny budget,» is rather cursory, with little more than a handful of bullet points for most science agencies.

In its outline «skinny budget,» released on 16 March, the administration said that it plans to cut the Office of Science budget by $ 900 million.

If the cuts in the skinny budget had made it into law, they «would've really decimated the federal sciences,» and not just what the agencies do themselves, but in academia as well «because that's where the grants come from,» Shultz, said.

Trump's effort to push his «skinny budget» wound up as a Democratic win, and it's no longer clear that he can even get a Republican Congress to enact tax reform this year.

Recall that Trump got rolled on the «skinny budget» and jammed up on health care before he fired Comey, the special counsel was appointed, and Republican senators started talking Watergate.

As promised in the «skinny budget,» the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant would be eliminated, while TRIO and Gear Up programs, which help disadvantaged students in middle and high schools prepare for college, would sustain nearly $ 200 million in cuts.

This week, President Trump released his «skinny budget» proposal, calling for wide - ranging cuts in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), including the complete elimination of funding for Title II, Part A, the Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants program.

The letter went to leaders of the education subcommittees working on appropriations in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives for Fiscal Year 2018, in light of the recommendation in the president's request to eliminate this $ 2.295 billion program (see the «skinny budget» released in March, and I'll have another article soon about the full proposal being issued today).

In the «Skinny Budget» that the White House released this month, President Trump offered $ 168 million in new funds for charter schools.

Federal funding for libraries would be eliminated in the proposed «Skinny Budget» from President Trump.

The National Science Foundation wasn't mentioned in Trump's original «skinny budget» in March but is tagged with an 11 % cut in the more fleshed out version released in May, certainly less severe than the 31 % cut to EPA or 18 % redlined at the National Institutes of Health.

One oddity about Perry's inquiry is that it comes even as Trump's «skinny budget» has proposed an unspecified cut to the department's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, whose key purpose is to work on making the grid resilient.

A gift card would help a lot with our skinny budget.