Sentences with phrase «targeted agency cuts»
De Blasio told reporters after the meeting that he intends to look for targeted agency cuts, particularly within the Department of Education, but has no immediate plans for an agency - wide budget cut, which is known as a «Program to Eliminate the Gap.»
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During this period, the Federal Reserve tried to support employment by cutting its federal funds rate target nearly to zero; by creating a number of special liquidity facilities to support the extension of credit; and by engaging in a large scale asset purchase program, buying Treasuries, agency debt and agency mortgage - backed securities.
The city has cut down on the amount of money for administrative costs, and has targeted housing initiatives rather than distributing money to a wide variety of nonprofit agencies.
The governor has paid for several tax cuts by asserting in state fiscal plans that agencies will continue to meet the zero - growth target.
As a result state agency chiefs earlier in the month gave the administration their lists of targeted job titles that might be cut in the event of layoffs.
The NOAA cuts target the Office of Ocean and Atmospheric Research, which conducts the bulk of the agency's climate research.
The agency laid out various scenarios under which states might meet targets for cutting their emissions.
Trump has targeted all of those agencies for large cuts.
The Environmental Protection Agency has been targeted by the Trump Administration as well, with a proposed 25 per cent cut to the overall budget.
But the agency could get stronger cuts by setting a combined and more ambitious target for coal and gas - fired plants, and leave it to utilities and states to decide how to get there.
This cut does not, however, target the agency's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which supports critical climate change research across the country.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the government's key climate science and meteorological agencies, is targeted for a 16 percent cut.
Each state has been assigned a target for cuts and needs to submit its plans for doing so to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) no later than 2018.
In an era of steep cuts to enforcement agency budgets and an emphasis upon performance targets, a prosecutor may be unduly tempted to regard resort to a DPA as an attractive means to resolve a case because it offers a relatively easy cash deal (maybe with a portion of it going to the agency) and it helps to create an illusion of rigorous enforcement as the company concerned is willing to make admissions as a precursor to a DPA.