Sentences with phrase «than budget cuts»

Something more than budget cuts is at work here.

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So this is a terrible time for the US to be signaling that it's seeking to cut foreign aid budget that is already only 0.2 % of US national income, less than 1 % of the federal budget.

The White House recommended cutting the EPA's budget $ 2.6 billion, or more than 30 percent, along with eliminating dozens of programs, particularly those enforcing Obama - era regulations and climate programs.

However, the House's plan for the EPA would cut the agency's budget 80 percent less than what the White house recommended in its May budget proposal.

A study from the Penn Wharton Budget Model in October estimated that Trump's tax cuts would boost GDP by 1.12 % and push jobs up by 11.7 million more than what would have been expected without his plan by 2018.

Such a cut fits into Trump's «America first» worldview, but is alarming to lawmakers who see diplomacy and foreign aid as a small but crucial component of the federal budget, just more than 1 %.

Obama's budget, to be formally released Monday, will call for $ 74 billion more than the levels frozen in place by across - the - board cuts agreed to by both Democrats and Republicans and signed by Obama into law.

And late last year, the Republican tax cut was enacted that will add more than $ 1 trillion to federal budget deficits over a decade.

While many of its spending cuts are more aggressive than the political climate is likely to allow, the RSC deserves great credit for putting out a budget in a year where no official budget has yet been put forward by the House or Senate Budget Commibudget in a year where no official budget has yet been put forward by the House or Senate Budget Commibudget has yet been put forward by the House or Senate Budget CommiBudget Committees.

While I'm not persuaded by the argument that Canada needs countercyclical Keynesian deficit spending (I think we're already out of recession), I do know what fiscal policy I would consider worse: arbitrarily cutting spending in a weak economy to balance the budget in light of a revenue shortfall stemming from lower than expected nominal GDP.

In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

The White House budget director came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell President Donald Trump's budget, but the administration's allies in the Senate preferred to talk about last year's tax cut rather than the trillion - dollar deficits contained in the new spending plan.

Greek budgets include tax hikes and spending cuts by more than $ 4.5 billion, a debt increase to more than 200 percent of GDP, an economic contraction of 1.3 percent and a new rise in unemployment by almost one percentage point to 25.4 percent.

In fact, the budget released Monday has $ 2.7 trillion lower revenue over the next decade than his first budget projection in May did, a seeming admission that the tax cuts would struggle to produce enough revenue to offset the costs.

Mick Mulvaney, Trump's budget director, argues the government would bring in more money because of the tax cuts than it would have without them.

But in conjunction with announcing Saudi Arabia's 2017 budget, Mr. Al - Falih said that the kingdom sees no need for addition production cuts than the ones already pledged by the OPEC and some non-OPEC producers.

New EI policies, designed to hurt rather than help; new appeal mechanisms, rigged against claimants; and employee cuts everywhere, made without rhyme or reason across the public service, as the Parliamentary Budget Office has just reported.

«So it's far easier than cutting coupons, or trying to budget.

Given this, it is nothing less than our obligation, as fully participating members of civil society, to continue alerting Canadians to these cuts and their impacts, all too often hidden from view through omnibus budget bills and government «feel good» misinformation.

It also includes cuts to non-defense spending designed to lower the federal budget deficit by more than $ 3 trillion over the next decade.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

In what is becoming something of a pig pile on the GOP from the Christian Left, more than two dozen bishops from mainline Protestant denominations sent a letter to Congress today denouncing proposed Republican budget cuts as «morally indefensible.»

Ron Paul cuts 2013 Medicaid spending to a level 30 % lower than the Ryan budget (and that is on top of the 13 billion dollar Medicaid cut in the Ryan budget.)

Ron Paul cuts 2013 Medicaid spending to a level 30 % lower than the Ryan budget (and....

So he is going to have to cut the Defense Department's operations even more than he suggested, or increase the Defense budget by around 10 billion dollars to accommodate the department's new responsibilities or hope that nuclear weapons and military nuclear reactors will produce and maintain themselves.

Yeah, I know he has Washington experience, but he has spent the last four years cutting taxes, balancing the budget, and presiding over a state with a lower - than the - national - average unemployment rate.

Last year, budget constraints forced the International Mission Board (IMB) to cut more than 1,000 missionaries and staff.

Jesus wouldn't cut the budget but he would change this whole evil system that we live in where money has more value than human life.

We support a balanced budget, but to do so will require deep cuts in the mandatory spending that account for two - thirds of federal spending — not much smaller discretionary accounts like foreign assistance, which represents less than two - thirds of one percent of the budget.

The House of Representatives is working day and night in its effort to cut more than $ 60 billion from the federal budget.

Ten thousand workers in my electorate have had their penalty rates cut, and the government is more than happy to push ahead with its budget for millionaires and multinationals, including a $ 65 billion tax cut for banks and multinationals.

Haas has its work cut out if it wants to stay as the fourth fastest team, though, as with fewer staff and a smaller budget than rivals, the team's development throughout the season is likely to be slower.

Sure, it will be bulkier than a prefold in the correct size, but if your budget just cant cut another set of them, then it will work famously!

In Texas, the Appropriations Committee is talking about budget cuts across the board rather than increasing the education budget.

I've more than cut my grocery budget in half using this method!

Choose an obstetrician or health care provider Interview potential doctors Contact health insurance company about coverage Start and pregnancy and birth budget Discuss financial effects of pregnancy and baby with partner Stop smoking Stop drinking Stop using street drugs Talk to your physician about any prescription medications Drink at least 8 glasses of water every day Visit the doctor at least once per month or every 4 weeks Do not dye or perm hair Stop drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages Exercise daily Start taking prenatal vitamins Eat foods rich in folic acid Eat iron rich foods Increase daily intake of whole grains, fruits and vegetables Nap as much as possible as fatigue is common Eat fish with low levels of mercury no more than 2 days per week Do not eat undercooked meats Do not eat unpasteurized dairy producs Do not eat cold cut deli meats Allow someone else to clean out the kitty litter, if applicable Limit exposure to chemicals Try to limit stress and tension Complete all prenatal tests — HIV, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Anemia, Blood Typing, Sickle Cell Anemia, Urine Screening and Rubella.

Cuomo's preliminary budget allocates $ 300 million less for the NYC Department of Education than was expected, according to a new report, and Cuomo wants to cut funding for charter school lease compensation by $ 86 million.

That's thanks largely to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was the first to suggest additional disaster aid — remember that FEMA only has about $ 800 million on hand, which is less than even New York's estimated storm bill of $ 1 billion — be offset by other budget cuts.

The Home Office has seen its budget slashed by 20 % - significantly more than the 12 % cuts judged by the police watchdog to be the maximum savings possible without affecting the frontline.

That's because Cuomo has tasked the Medicaid Relief Redesign Team with proposing cuts of its own by March 1 — one month before the April 1 budget deadline (and remember, Cuomo is reportedly willing to risk a government shutdown rather than let the budget battle drag on indefinitely).

Schumer said the Trump administration's proposed 2018 budget would cut funding for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health by more than 40 percent.

Hi Stan, I think you and I disagree even more deeply than that — I'm not in favor of budget cuts for the cutting's sake, only in favor of funding programs we need and not ones we don't (in the abstract — the real world of politics is far too messy for such an innocent construction).

The mayor unveiled his proposed $ 84.86 billion executive budget — a plan that comes in the shadow of threatened cuts by the Trump administration and is about 3 percent higher than the $ 82.2 billion comparable budget he put out exactly a year ago.

The White House is seeking to cut more than $ 2.5 billion from the annual budget of the Environmental Protection Agency — an overall reduction of more than 23 percent.

Senate Finance Chairman John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) got things going last month when he suggested that Medicaid rather than school aid should take the brunt of budget cuts.

Because of lower - than - expected federal assistance for Medicaid, Albany instituted an across - the - board budget sweep of 1.1 percent, cutting state spending and also siphoning off theoretically separate revenue streams dedicated to specific programs and agencies, like the MTA.

To the extent that conservatives succeed in reducing fiscal woes to a case of runaway spending, politicians find it easier to address budget shortfalls with public sector furlough days, wage freezes, layoffs and benefit cuts than with progressive tax increases that, many economists conclude, would cause the least harm to the recovery.

These will be cut by 19 % over four years rather than by 20 % «implied» in Alistair Darling's March budget.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2011 - 12 budget proposal, released Tuesday, calls for a more than 8 percent cut in spending at the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

The chancellor's move, which will cut # 3bn a year from the welfare budget, is designed to cement the Conservatives» reputation as the party willing to take tough long - term economic decisions, even at the cost of hitting more than 5 million families characterised as working poor.