Sentences with phrase «spending bill president»

«The $ 1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill President Trump signed last week includes a record amount of funding to prepare communities for future extreme weather events that scientists say are being exacerbated by the impacts of global warming.»

But after weeks of precarious negotiations, the $ 1.3 trillion spending bill the president eventually signed Friday doesn't explicitly mention the $ 30 billion Gateway project and reverses some earlier attempts to steer funding its way.

And this March, as my colleague Alex Paladino mentioned, the spending bill President Trump signed to fund the government through the end of September originally had an internet sales tax attached to it, before it was pulled out at the last minute.

The omnibus legislation encompassed five remaining spending bills President Clinton had not signed into law, including the appropriations bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.

Not exact matches

BRIEFLY IN THE BLACK: Small tax increases and spending cuts in the 1990s generated surpluses beginning under President Bill Clinton (above, right)-- with an assist from the dotcom boom.

Afterward, Trump said he wants the power to issue line - item vetoes on spending bills — a power many presidents have demanded, and that Congress has never granted — and that the Senate should eliminate the ability of a minority to filibuster legislation.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The combined effects of President Trump's tax cuts and last month's budget - busting spending bill is sending the government's budget deficit toward the $ 1 trillion mark next year, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.

Defense stocks have climbed as Congress inched closer to a spending agreement, with President Donald Trump insistent that any bill includes more funding for the armed forces.

McIlroy also said he would have played with President Barack Obama had he had the opportunity and had spent time with past presidents including Bill Clinton.

Robbins has spent the last three decades as the world's foremost performance coach, taking on clients like billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones, tennis champion Serena Williams, and former president Bill Clinton.

Bond vigilantes last made their mark during the Clinton administration, when a bond market sell - off forced President Bill Clinton to tone down his spending agenda.

After signing the bills, Trump left Washington, D.C. for Palm Beach, Florida, where the president plans to spend Christmas at his Mar - a-Lago Club.

In the first half of 2017, on the other hand, the fundraising committees for Congressmen Tom MacArthur, Dana Rohrabacher, and Bill Shuster spent $ 15,000, $ 11,000, and $ 7,000, respectively, for events held at golf clubs and hotels owned by the president and operated by his company.

Both houses will have to agree on one spending bill to send it to President Donald Trump — and Pelosi's remarks indicate that the Senate proposal may face tough opposition in the lower chamber.

Senior Trump administration officials involved in the talks about the spending bill are prepared to concede that in the main, the fight over funding for President Trump's border wall will now be put off until the fiscal 2018 negotiations.

Last week, President Donald Trump signed a one - year $ 1.3 trillion spending bill.

Battles over priorities in a huge governmentwide spending bill are essentially settled, leaving a scaled - back plan for President Donald Trump's border wall and a huge rail project that pits Trump against Capitol Hill's most powerful Democrat as the top issues to be solved.

The White House later said the president backed the legislation, even as some conservative Republicans balked at the size of the spending increases and the rush to pass the bill.

WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders finalized a sweeping $ 1.3 trillion budget bill Wednesday that substantially boosts military and domestic spending but leaves behind young immigrant «Dreamers,» deprives President Donald Trump some of his border wall money and takes only incremental steps to address gun violence.

But in December 2014, Citigroup was able to slip language into the must - pass spending bill that effectively repealed this critical Dodd - Frank provision and President Obama signed the bill into law.

In just one month since the Parkland shooting, the gun control movement has made some small gains: The Florida state legislature passed new firearm regulations, and the federal spending bill signed by President Trump on Friday contains modest steps toward tightening the nation's gun laws, including the Fix NICS Act, which strengthens the background - check system for gun purchases.

The law, which President Donald Trump signed on Saturday as part of the omnibus spending bill, provides funding to train students, teachers, and law enforcement on how to spot and report signs of gun violence.

The congressional spending bill signed by the President on March 23 directs the FDA to take action against imitation dairy foods, «representing a victory for farmers and consumers alike,» said the Nat...

Thanks to Don Van Natta Jr. for his enlightening report on a day spent golfing with former President Bill Clinton (The Rights of Bill, March 24).

The bill, a priority for the president and first lady Michelle Obama, would boost spending on child nutrition $ 4.5 billion over 10 years and raise federal reimbursements for school lunches more than the inflation rate for the first time since 1973.

President Donald Trump unleashed a tweetstorm of criticism of Democrats involved in tense negotiations on a spending bill to keep the government open, accusing them of trying to close national parks and jeopardize the safety of U.S. troops over demands to provide Americans with health care.

The most obvious mechanism, which House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will set out for the President - elect, will be a Reconciliation Bill by which, because such bills are exempt from filibuster provisions in the Senate, spending and revenue - raising decisions can be driven through not just the House but also the Senate on majority votes.

Congressional leaders have clinched an agreement on a massive $ 1.3 trillion spending bill that President Donald Trump, for now, appears grudgingly willing to support.

Former President Bill Clinton is again offering up the chance to spend a day with him in New York as a fundraising gimmick to help his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, retire the still - lingering debt from her 2008 presidential campaign.

White House officials reportedly have told key GOP leaders on Capitol Hill that President Donald Trump is open to striking a deal that would protect young immigrants from deportation in exchange for border wall funding as part of an upcoming spending bill.

Despite efforts by Trump to block federal funding for Gateway, a new train link under the Hudson River, the project could receive as much as $ 540 million from a spending bill Congress hammered out — much less than the $ 900 million that previously had been intended, but not the shutout the president had been pushing.

The Trump White House has made it official: The president will sign the $ 1.1 trillion catchall spending bill, though he's «concerned» lawmakers ignored his request that increases be accompanied by spending cuts elsewhere in the budget.

Vice President Mike Pence is cutting short a 10 - day trip to Asia and Hawaii, returning to Washington by mid-week to help the president pass a spending bill to keep the government fully open pasPresident Mike Pence is cutting short a 10 - day trip to Asia and Hawaii, returning to Washington by mid-week to help the president pass a spending bill to keep the government fully open paspresident pass a spending bill to keep the government fully open past Friday.

With time running out, Congress today easily approved a short - term spending bill that would prevent a partial federal government shutdown over the weekend, but departed in advance of the president's first 100 day milestone (tomorrow) with addressing two of his top policy priorities: health care and a year - long budget deal.

It appears the president's tweet was motivated by an internal House Republican fight over transgender troops that was threatening to blow up a spending bill stacked with Trump campaign promises — including money to build his border wall with Mexico.

WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders finalized a sweeping $ 1.3 trillion budget bill Wednesday that substantially boosts military and domestic spending but leaves behind young immigrant «Dreamers,» deprives President Donald Trump some of his border wall money and takes only incremental steps to address gun violence.

E.J. McMahon, president of the fiscally conservative Empire Center, called the spending «pork» from a «slush fund» and questioned why state taxpayers are footing the bill for things «local government ought to be doing.»

STATEN ISLAND — Mayor Bill de Blasio spent his first day on Staten Island announcing new initiatives for the 123 Precinct, chowing down on cannoli with his pal Borough President James Oddo and riding the ferry to work, but said it's not an effort to win over borough voters.

«Bill Owens is just the latest Democrat who would rather hang»em up than have to spend the next year defending Obamacare and other Democratic economic policies that haven't evolved since Jimmy Carter was president,» NRCC spokesman Ian Prior said.

Instead, Congress and the president have approved a series of short - term spending bills known as «continuing resolutions.»

They also predict that if the Manhattan developer becomes president, he'd work from the White House to turn New York away from the anti-business, tax - and - spend, «progressive» Democratic politicians, including Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who now dominate City Hall and the state Capitol.

«There's a lot of states ahead,» Mayor Bill de Blasio said on MSNBC late Monday night from Iowa, where he spent the weekend campaigning for Hillary Clinton in her bid to become the Democratic nominee and next President of the United States.

(CNN)- A deputy White House spokesman confirms the president has signed the continuing resolution — the spending bill to keep the government funded until March 18.

A spending bill that funds watchdog agencies overseeing Wall Street will offer lawmakers one of their last opportunities to undercut President Barack Obama's signature financial overhaul before the November elections.

The President claims that the House Speaker, John Boehner, is refusing to allow a vote on a so - called «clean spending bill» which many believe actually has the votes to pass (see for example http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-04/obama-tells-republicans-to-stop-shutdown-farce/4997874):

Congress sent President Barack Obama a short - term spending bill to keep the government open through next Wednesday as lawmakers and the White House rushed to finalize a $ 1.1 trillion government - wide spending bill and a sprawling tax package.

The House approved a stopgap spending bill last night to keep the government open past today, but Senate Democrats — angered by President Trump's vulgar aspersions and a lack of progress on a broader budget and immigration deal — appeared ready to block the measure.

The 2014 Farm Bill, signed by President Barack Obama in February, authorizes $ 1.3 billion in spending over five years to help farmers adopt conservation practices in regions of the country facing significant environmental challenges.

He also spent big on splashy fund - raising events, including a blowout 60th birthday party last month where former President Bill Clinton and Jon Bon Jovi appeared.

The House will send a three - month stopgap government spending bill, debt - limit hike and aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey to President Trump's desk on Friday.