Sentences with phrase «steep cuts»

The $ 4.1 trillion spending plan calls for steep cuts in a range of support programs for low - income individuals to balance the federal government's books over the next decade.

Why such steep cuts for all these applied technology programs?

What is required now is for the government seriously to increase the scale and speed of its policies, to begin to achieve the kind of steep cuts in emissions Stern demonstrates are necessary.»

HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSES BUDGET WITH STEEP CUTS: Doesn't include money for full - day pre-kindergarten, teacher incentive pay, arts education and numerous other school programs.

Delay in taking such action means the prospect of much steeper cuts later if there is any hope of staying below the 3.6 °F (2 °C) temperature goal.

It also seeks to set him apart from Republicans in Congress whose seven - year plans to balance the budget would make steep cuts in scores of social programs.

The budget plan proposes steep cuts at the National Institutes of Health, which funds biomedical research conducted by the nation's leading colleges and universities.

(The budget initially sought even steeper cuts of over $ 7 billion, about half of which was restored in a quickly released addendum.)

She said the capital - projects fund, used to renovate school buildings, has taken steep cuts as a result of the low tax collection and loss of resources to public charter schools and private schools in the form of vouchers.

A fast move away from cheap abundant fossil fuels will be much costlier than a slow one, but a slow shift means the long - lived gases will have accumulated to higher levels in the atmosphere mid-century, requiring much steeper cuts later.

A program to stop deadly diseases from spreading to the U.S. by helping foreign countries contain them now faces steep cuts

This was reflected in President Donald Trump's proposed budget, which called for steep cuts to public school programs and an emphasis on school choice.

The budget also maintains other steep cuts first unveiled in February, including closing 20 fire companies, and adds more than $ 250 million in new pain.

Goldman, headed by CEO Lloyd Blankfein, is already expected to report steep cuts in expenses in its first quarter earnings on Tuesday.

But many in the market believe steeper cuts are needed to reduce the glut significantly.

President Donald Trump unveiled a $ 4.4 trillion budget plan Monday that envisions steep cuts to America's social safety net but mounting spending on the military, formally retreating from last year's promises to balance the federal budget.

Motown took a step closer to bankruptcy last week when the state - appointed fix - it man called on bondholders and public workers to accept steep cuts.

According to an experiment run by the testers at Cook's Illustrated «steeping cut garlic in lemon juice mellows its flavor» (January / February 2011).

The proposal, worth $ 4.4 trillion overall, outlines steep cuts to domestic programs, large increases in military spending and a ballooning federal deficit that illustrates how far Republicans have strayed from their longtime embrace of balanced budgets.

If the future of fiscal squeeze follows the pattern of the past, we can expect future squeezes to continue to bite harder on the spending than on the revenue element, to be orchestrated and planned within the central administrative apparatus rather than by outside commissions, and for the pain to be spread over longer periods with lower annual falls, rather than in sudden steep cuts.

Britain's biggest earners benefit from pension subsidies worth more than # 10bn a year while shopfloor workers are suffering steep cuts in their retirement incomes, according to the TUC.

In the short term, the state will now continue to be operated through a series of executive orders that allow key services to remain running but also bring steep cuts to municipalities, certain social service programs and other aspects of state government.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is urging the federal government and the state's congressional delegation to prevent steep cuts to a program that provides funding to financially stressed hospitals.

«It is not going to be easy,» said the mayor, who placed the blame squarely on the state and federal governments, whose steep cuts have forced the city to bear an ever - greater share of costs, he said.

Centro, which provides public bus service in Central New York, would have lost about $ 12 million in aid over the six years, forcing steep cuts to an already struggling system.

«Congress was still able to provide boosts to NIH and shield NASA from steep cuts even though there isn't a lot of room to work with.»

President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping struck a historic climate change agreement in Beijing last night, vowing that the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases will each undertake steep cuts in the coming decade and will work together toward a new global deal.

Without steep cuts to the world's greenhouse gas output, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could soar by the end of the century to a level not seen for 34 million years.

But the budget goes well beyond these sources of controversy to attempt steep cuts in discovery science at the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy, representing a clean break with what has been a fairly consistent bipartisan consensus on government's role in fundamental science (Figure 1).

Many of these places would also see steep cuts in aid if the president's budget gains traction in Congress.

The Baltimore school board voted 6 - 2, with one abstention, to pass next school year's $ 1.3 billion operating budget, which manages to avoid a call for layoffs but includes steep cuts for the city's public charter schools.

The report also notes that nearly two decades of revenue caps have taken a steady toll on school resources, and recent steep cuts in support for K - 12 education in the 2011 - 2013 biennial budget are likely to accelerate that trend.

Given that Amazon is currently selling the same tablet for $ 359, and it normally retails for $ 399, that's a pretty steep cut.

Steeper cuts don't look plausible, but are always an option and we could build up to these if required.

A lot also hinges on how much flexibility the EPA gives states to implement these cuts — if states are allowed to enact some sort of permit - trading program, they could get steeper cuts for less cost.

But some critics have said that to achieve its reduction goals, the U.S. would have to make far steeper cuts to emissions.

In the context of mitigation, the discount rate matters because it could be argued that even though delayed mitigation is more costly than cutting emissions now (because steeper cuts are required), those delayed (greater) expenses are not «worth as much» as today's costs because they are discounted.

Without going into details, it should be self - evident that steeper cuts translate into greater economic cost — cutting emissions by 5 % can be achieved by efficiency measures; cutting them by 50 % in a year requires that roughly half your factory is turned off.

-- snip — The Trump administration is seeking to slash the budget of one of the government's premier climate science agencies by 17 percent, delivering steep cuts to research funding and satellite programs, according to a four - page budget memo obtained by The Washington Post.

President Barack Obama is getting ready to unveil an aggressive plan to tackle climate change on Monday that involves steeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions from power plans than had been previously expected.

Of the 19 states in which funding decisions were made through the legislative budget process, family planning funds were the subject of steep cuts only in Maine, where funding was slashed by 25 %.

It argued for a shorter, sharper shock to the public finances, with steeper cuts to welfare payments and a tougher stance on workless households.

Later this summer, they will consider President Donald Trump's budget for 2018, which proposes steep cuts to domestic spending.

As Andy Revkin wrote «a slow shift means the long - lived gases will have accumulated to higher levels in the atmosphere mid-century, requiring much steeper cuts later.

The legislation also omits a provision found in earlier versions of the House bill that would have made steep cuts to NSF's social science and geosciences research.

The TUC said in its report Decent Pensions for All that the public sector had come under unprecedented attack from critics who distorted the costs of running the system to boost arguments in favour of steep cuts in benefits.

But global warming is, famously, a global issue, and even steep cuts in one sector of one country's economy many years in the future will have only a minuscule effect on global atmospheric conditions.

That increase led to steep cuts in other parts of the Forest Service budget, including forest - thinning projects to reduce fire risk.