Sentences with phrase «slashing federal spending»

In 1994, Republicans led by Newt Gingrich seized control of Congress after campaigning on a Contract with America that contained much the same rhetoric about slashing federal spending as today's Republican pledge.

Since the January inauguration of Donald Trump as president, department heads and administrators throughout New York City government have been bracing for negative reverberations, with many expecting slashed federal spending and harmful policy rollbacks.

President Donald Trump has vowed to cut off all funding to «sanctuary cities» like New York that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities, while GOP leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have long sought to slash federal spending across the board.

«As the 2nd most conservative member of the New York State Assembly in rankings by the New York State Conservative Party and the # 1 Legislator in scoring by Unshackle Upstate, a New York reform organization, I know we need to slash federal spending, balance the budget, end the bailouts, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit and support repealing Obamacare.

Heritage is also unhappy the bill doesn't do more to slash federal spending or reduce programs, and it has complained that the bill codifies an existing federal program intended to help states coordinate new preschool programs with preexisting ones such as Head Start.

During his recent testimony before the House Education Appropriations Subcommittee, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan blasted House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R - WI) FY13 budget proposal to slash federal spending, which the White House estimates would result in a more than 5 percent cut -LRB-- $ 784 million) to Title I grants (currently $ 14.5 billion) in FY13 and a 19 percent cut -LRB-- $ 2.7 billion) in FY14.

Not exact matches

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.

And the reason I argue in the book that earlier depression was over so quickly was because the federal government really did sit back and do nothing, they actually slashed spending because this was right after World War I.

My priorities will be to slash wasteful federal spending, set our nation on a path to a balanced budget, end bailouts for bad business decisions, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit, and repeal Obamacare.

Turner said that if it were up to him, he would cut federal spending by 35 percent — including gutting the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and slashing the budget of the U.S. Department of Education — which he said would take about seven to 10 years to accomplish.

Total federal research spending would be slashed by about 17 percent, Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said in a conference call with reporters.

In addition to slashing spending levels, Hall's amendment specified that «none of the funds authorized under this Act may be used to pay the salary of any individual who has been officially disciplined... for viewing, downloading, or exchanging pornography on a federal government computer or while performing federal government duties.»

Overall, the budget released by Prime Minister Tony Abbott's conservative government, elected this past September, is aimed at slashing the federal government's long - term spending deficits.

The proposal is one cut among many in a budget that would slash federal education spending by $ 9 billion, or 13.5 percent, in 2018.

Other Kline bills would remove some federal controls from education spending and slash federal education programs.

Kline has also moved a bill out of committee that would slash half of NCLB's federal education programs and another one that would give more states flexibility over spending federal education funds intended to serve disadvantaged students.

Budget Battle, Part I: President Obama's Budget Would Invest in Energy Innovation Budget Battle, Part II: House GOP Budget Proposal Slashes Energy Innovation Investments Budget Battle, Part III: Senate Democrats» Aim to Invest in Clean Energy, Innovation, Infrastructure Post Updated: 03/08/2011 President Obama released his fiscal year 2012 budget proposal this morning, a solid endorsement of the necessity to increase public investment in energy innovation amidst proposals to indiscriminately cut discretionary spending across all federal programs.

Spending on health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples has been slashed in the Federal Budget, according to a health policy analyst who writes under the pen name of «William Foggin».