Sentences with phrase «wasteful federal spending»

In 2015, the plan was finally scrapped, according to Reuters, which called it «a symbol of wasteful federal spending on politicians» pet projects.»

was issuing the Golden Fleece Award to target wasteful federal spending and often targeted peer - reviewed science because it sounded odd.

Rep. Cooper first had the idea for the Golden Goose Award when the late Senator William Proxmire (D - WI) was issuing the Golden Fleece Award to target wasteful federal spending and often targeted peer - reviewed science because it sounded odd.

The citation was intended to ridicule often unusual - sounding scientific research that Proxmire deemed nothing more than wasteful federal spending «fleecing» taxpayers.

My priorities will be to slash wasteful federal spending, set our nation on a path to a balanced budget, end bailouts for bad business decisions, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit, and repeal Obamacare.

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The budget proposal also included plans to eliminate duplicative energy programs and wasteful spending to help get «federal government out of the way and allow the private sector to do its job and flourish.»

So when President Barack Obama pushed for a $ 60 billion package of federal aid, it sparked more than three months of partisan sparring — a delay that left Democrats and northeastern Republicans fuming while the remainder of the GOP fulminated against the threat of a growing national debt and the inclusion of spending they deemed wasteful.

This structural deficiency of what government spends its resources on and who are the real beneficiaries thereof, is worsened by another structural problem - the structure of Nigeria's pseudo-federation with one overwhelmingly large and not surprisingly wasteful and inefficient federal governments; 36 handicapped states; and 774 almost utterly useless local governments which are now de facto area offices of the handicapped states and therefore doubly - disabled and dysfunctional.

Curran criticized the GOP administration of County Executive Edward Mangano — who is not seeking re-election and is fighting federal corruption charges — for poor oversight of county contracts and wasteful spending on patronage jobs.

«It's an insult to the hard - working New Yorkers who are still recovering from Superstorm Sandy that the New York Republican Party would see fit to bring in Ted Cruz of all people — someone who called federal aid wasteful spending.»

The OMB guidelines were issued in response to reports of wasteful government spending by federal employees at «junket - style» gatherings.

Within days the Republican National Committee had named the grant one of the «Five Most Absurd Spending Items» in Coburn's compendium of «wasteful» federal projects, which include the International Space Station and administrative leave for federal employees.

Mainstream wisdom among federal policymakers then was that schools don't make much of a difference in children's lives and that spending money to improve schools was wasteful.

Federal efforts to reduce wasteful spending haven't achieved much.

Rather than curbing wasteful spending, the government wants home owners, who already pay 80 % to 90 % of all federal income taxes collected, to take the hit.