Sentences with phrase «to slash budgets»

In 2013 the then coalition Government slashed the budget for legal aid by # 350m a year.

Trump plans on slashing the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by a quarter — targeting enforcement, grants for toxic cleanup efforts, as well as air and water protection programs.

The reason Romney was constantly slashing budgets by hundreds of millions in the last few years was to BALANCE THE BUDGET.

Governments had to react quickly and drastically, and in most cases relied heavily on slashing budgets.

As cash - poor state governments slash budgets, colleges are capping or cutting enrollment despite a surge in applications from high school seniors, community college students and unemployed workers returning to school.

The March on Science will take place in D.C. this weekend, in which scientists, science advocates and nerds in general will descend on the nation's capital to protest slashed budgets...

Ahead of Monday's eurogroup meeting meeting, finance minister Euclid Tskalotos warned darkly of the perils involved in demanding yet more cuts of a nation whose economy has shrunk by more than 25 % in the six years since successive governments began slashing budgets in return for bailout aid.

You should see the list of people and relatives that Astorino has hired with six digit salaries, which he did after slashing the budget and laying off dozens.

We face funding cuts and slashed budgets as cyberlearning, home schooling, and charter schools proliferate.

The administration also slashed the budgets for advertising the exchanges and for navigators who help people sign up.

Consumers aren't slashing their budgets wholesale — for every individual, there's at least one product they refuse to give up, Tomasello says.

Right now, prices are so low leading producers such as ConocoPhillips and Chesapeake Energy are not only slashing budgets for new drilling but shutting inactive wells.

Airtime is currently dirt cheap, thanks to big marketers slashing their budgets.

3G is slashing all budgets including R&D, contributing to further revenue declines.

Congress later slashed the budget that was intended to fund free or low - cost contraceptives.

Varoufakis's refusal to accept the conditions of its creditors particularly riled the Slovakian because his government has slashed the budget deficit and cracked down on tax evasion.

«To Peter Grant I make this pledge: I will work with you in your role as council leader to do the best I can with you on behalf of the constituents and I pledge my support for you if you stand up to the SNP government in Edinburgh to tell them to stop slashing budgets across Scotland.

Now, the White House wants to dramatically slash the budget of the EPA science office that produced that report, employs some 1700 researchers and others, and runs essentially all of the agency's other major scientific activities.

«We're Not Broke»: As American lawmakers slash budgets and lay off employees, leaving many people scrambling to survive, multibillion - dollar corporations are concealing colossal profits overseas to avoid paying U.S. income tax.

During the depths of the economic downturn, schools in Utah and across the country slashed budgets.

Schools boards across the country are feeling the heat from slashed budgets and fewer resources making for a challenging year in public education.

Young teachers have become far more scarce in California classrooms after school districts slashed their budgets to survive the recession.

Instead of taking steps to strengthen public schools, and to ensure equity and access, she has proposed slashing budgets.

If pricepoints for e-books are forced down, do publishers simply slash budgets to achieve their margins?

Slashed budgets meant more law firms brought their marketing training and CLE in - house.

So the committee slashed the budget further by selecting lower - cost materials and cutting out some features, such as a town clock.

Due to the way Wales» funding is calculated, through the Barnett Formula, Conservative plans to slash the budgets of schools, nurseries and colleges in England would have severe repercussions for the Welsh budget.

The blueprint calls for a 31 percent spending reduction for EPA, slashing its budget by $ 2.6 billion.

The administration also slashed the budget for advertising enrollment and for navigators who help people sign up.

The March on Science will take place in D.C. this weekend, in which scientists, science advocates and nerds in general will descend on the nation's capital to protest slashed budgets and censorship of scientific findings.

We started a new degree program in the arts at the very time that the public schools were slashing their budgets in the arts.

«But at this point, the governor going into accountability after slashing the budget, it was an odd bit of timing to us.»

«The oil and gas companies are slashing their budgets.

While Christy Clark argued the need for more women in decision - making positions, and bragged about doing so, she did not recognize the systemic barriers to women's participation in politics, namely those she slashed the budgets of.

Butterfield said the Trump administration has taken actions to undermine the ACA by cutting the enrollment period in half, slashing the budget for navigators, people who go out into the community to try to get people to sign up, and cutting the budget for outreach efforts to educate citizens about the plan.

Consistent low oil prices have led the oil companies to slash their budgets.

We have had to slash our budget for me to stay home, and with three kids under five, I am exhausted and barely have time to take a shower.

You will be slashing your budget by a huge amount by choosing to make your own purees.

«Despite the weight of this evidence, since coming to power the Government has slashed the budget of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and announced plans to axe or reform 84 % of health and safety laws.

A slashed budget is not the way forward; what we need is a budget that matches the scale of economic challenges that lie ahead.

It is quite understandable that countries such as the Netherland, Denmark and the United Kingdom aimed for a slashed budget: in times of crisis, it is hard to sell the message of pouring even more money into Brussels» accounts.

Spending decisions ignore evidence in favour of politics, as the horsetrading over plans to slash budgets for scientific research shows

The NYPD is required to submit a plan to slash its budget by 2.7 percent this year and 4 percent next year, while the Parks Department must plan for a 5.4 percent cut this year and an 8 percent cut next year, officials said.

Turner said that if it were up to him, he would cut federal spending by 35 percent — including gutting the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and slashing the budget of the U.S. Department of Education — which he said would take about seven to 10 years to accomplish.

Silver, a liberal Democrat with powerful union ties who has repeatedly stymied efforts by the last three governors to restrain spending, said he was fully behind Cuomo's pledge to slash the budget to close a projected $ 8 billion deficit for the fiscal year beginning April 1.

Last year, Channel 4 slashed the budget for his long - running show (Bremner, Bird and Fortune) by 80 per cent.

«It is just outrageous that OMB would in the middle of the night... go ahead and slash our budget,» said Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz's chief of staff Carlo Scissura.

With the government's coffers squeezed by low oil prices, RosCosmos has had to slash its budget for the 10 - year plan to 1.4 trillion rubles ($ 20.5 billion), down from the 3.4 trillion rubles the agency asked for a year ago.