Two hundred thousand disabled people will each lose almost £3,000 a year as a result of sweeping cuts to disability benefits, according to Labour analysis.
Senior Russian officials heaped praise on the Bush administration today for consenting to be legally bound by a future nuclear arms agreement, and one said a pact dictating sweeping cuts in the two nations' nuclear arsenals was now likely within months.
George Osborne drove his axe deep into the heart of the British state today, with a range of sweeping cuts to welfare, higher education, social housing, policing and local government that he claims will draw the country back from the brink of bankruptcy.
Layoffs at the Times conclude a month of sweeping cuts across the media industry and signal that the plight of shrinking newsrooms is far from over.
On Monday, with negotiations seemingly at an impasse, Mr. Paterson inserted sweeping cuts to health care spending in the latest emergency bill, essentially forcing lawmakers to accept a portion of his budget proposal.
Trump has also proposed a Voldemort budget that demands sweeping cuts everywhere except the Pentagon.
On April 15th the Republican-controlled House of Representatives adopted a budget plan that enacts sweeping cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and other government programmes.
The new GOP majority wasted little time pushing a conservative legislative agenda including sweeping cuts to Medicaid, unemployment, education and other social programs, along with the voter ID bill.
A few weeks ago, finance minister Brian Lenihan announced sweeping cuts to stabilise the shattered public finances as he presented the harshest budget in decades.
