Sentence examples for Consensus on spending from inspiring English sources
And such problems raise inevitable doubts about how state leaders — including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, and Democratic majorities in both houses — will reach consensus on spending the billions of dollars marked by Congress as discretionary.
For example there is a cross-party consensus on spending on international development.
Until the rich pay more, there will be no later consensus on spending cuts that eventually will be needed to curb long-term deficits.
He said last year that he had to work with Congress to seek a consensus on spending bills and that lawmakers weren't interested in pursuing legislation that would cut spending.
The pay freeze lapsed last month after lawmakers failed to reach a consensus on spending bills for multiple federal agencies.
They're increasingly likely to reach a consensus on spending caps and giving states much greater leeway to cut services and access to Medicaid.
Yet the bipartisan consensus on infrastructure spending has disintegrated, and I believe this is because such projects take time — and vision.
As the crisis gave way to a painful recession, Mr. Obama used the G-20 meetings last year in London and Pittsburgh to obtain consensus on stimulus spending, stabilizing banking systems, providing more financing for the International Monetary Fund and respecting trade agreements.
The more pessimistic assessment came as lawmakers and White House officials opened their second week of budget talks still lacking agreement on what figure to use as the starting point for deficit reduction, let alone any consensus on the spending cuts or tax increases that will be needed to reach a specific deficit target.
Nowhere more so than in 2008, when, post Crisis, he abandoned the cosy cross party consensus on matching spending to argue for belt tightening.
