Sentences with phrase «slashed by billions of dollars»

Lower dairy prices represented a mixed blessing, reducing ingredient costs for consumer products but also weighing heavily on the company's farmer - shareholders whose collective incomes have been slashed by billions of dollars in the last two years.

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A series of cuts known as the sequester slashed spending by tens of billions of dollars early in the year, until a deal to restore some of the reductions this year.

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.

Surrendering to the EU's seizure of common food names would cost the U.S. dairy industry billions of dollars, slash domestic cheese consumption and increase prices for consumers, according to an analysis recently released by Informa Economics IEG.

«It would allow insurance companies to discriminate against Americans based on pre-existing conditions, force millions of New Yorkers to lose coverage, and slash Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars.»

The final text and analysis for the next round of commitments, which will slash emissions at least 30 percent further by 2030, released today show that RGGI will also continue to add billions of dollars and thousands of jobs to the region's economy over the next decade.

Anyone keen on understanding the GOP's key ambitions need look no further than its proposal for the U.S. budget, presented by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R - WI)-- it sets aside tens of billions of dollars in handouts to oil companies while slashing Medicare and aid to the poor.