Sentences with phrase «threatened by budget cuts»

Shultz added, «I'm excited to be joining the talented team at AGU and am looking forward to highlighting for policy makers the importance of Earth and space science to our country's future, especially at a time when that science is threatened by budget cuts and other challenges.»

At the same time, however, experts warn that the capacity to use satellite - borne instruments to monitor Earth is threatened by budget cuts and shifting priorities, particularly in the United States.

Not exact matches

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.

«UB's promise, and its potential to transform this community, have been threatened severely by repeated budget cuts and, most recently, by the latest setbacks from Albany,» Simpson said.

The bus system faces route cuts practically every year, and crucial social services, such as youth programs, are often threatened by budget shortfalls.

Gov. David Paterson said he's considering the additional cuts proposed by Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos, but warned he won't be «intimated or threatened» by the Long Island Republican — or anyone else, for that matter — when it comes to the budget extenders.

A $ 223 million midyear budget cut — the amount that Gov. David Paterson is threatening to take from city schools in January — will do real damage to classrooms if a union survey of the harm already wrought by the $ 400 million in city budget cuts this fall is any indication.

Some academics may find themselves silenced, censured, or threatened by a less egregious but nonetheless career - breaking attack: being fired from their positions, in most cases under false pretexts such as budget cuts or unfounded claims of fraud or poor performance.

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The Trump - DeVos budget threatens to exacerbate the budgetary challenge states face by cutting at least $ 3.6 billion from ESSA programs and $ 9 billion from the Department of Education overall while making an unprecedented investment in an ambiguous «school choice» program.

At NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which early in the year was threatened with 30 percent budget cuts by Republicans who resent its reports on climate change, Gavin Schmidt occupies the seventh - floor corner office once occupied by the legendary James Hansen, the scientist who first laid out the facts for Congress in 1988 and grew so impassioned he got himself arrested protesting coal mines.

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