Sentences with phrase «total discretionary budget»

EPA's total discretionary budget would be subject to a substantial cut of $ 2.4 billion or 30 percent below last year's enacted levels.

Not exact matches

«This budget proposal has only 0.6 percent discretionary growth, and in total, over the past five years, the county budget has barely grown two percent,» Picente said.

The July adjustments to total discretionary spending outlined in the Mid-Session Review (to produce a budget that would balance according to CBO assumptions) were, however, applied in a mechanical fashion equally to all agency budgets.

Despite the highly decentralized nature of decision - making in the budget process and the equally decentralized nature of R&D funding in the U.S., R&D has consistently hovered at around 14 percent of total discretionary spending.

In total, the President's budget contains about $ 50 billion more in FY 2002 in nondefense discretionary spending (out of which all nondefense R&D is funded) than the FY 1996 congressional budget resolution.

The House measure, approved by an appropriations subcommittee last week, would inch up the current discretionary budget for the Department of Education by $ 118 million, to a total of $ 56.7 billion, or by less than 1 percent, in fiscal 2006.

The bill they passed, and that the President signed, reduced total discretionary and mandatory spending for education by just $ 60 million — a cut of less than one - tenth of one percent from the prior year's $ 71.66 billion budget.

If signed into law, the budget act would roll back most sequestration cuts for the next two years, reinstating 87 percent of total spending on domestic discretionary programs.