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And, despite current talk of policies aimed at slashing the federal deficit, discretionary programmes are being cut by only around 5%; and the big ticket items – social security, Medicare, defence spending, national security – are mainly exempt from spending reductions.
Overall, the budget released by Prime Minister Tony Abbott's conservative government, elected this past September, is aimed at slashing the federal government's long-term spending deficits.
In another move aimed at slashing costs the NFF has cut salaries and bonuses for their players and coaches.
The reductions target the implementation of the Clean Power Plan, the sweeping Obama-era regulation aimed at slashing carbon emissions from the utility sector, the country's biggest emitter by far.
The cap, announced by Chancellor George Osborne in his Autumn Statement last year, is aimed at slashing £5 billion from the welfare bill over the next five years.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is leading discussions aimed at slashing more than $2 trillion from the federal deficit over the coming decade as the price for permitting the government to take on more debt to pay current obligations.
OO White House Sets New Fuel-Efficiency Standards for large trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles, the latest in a series of efforts aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions and weaning the nation from its dependence on fossil fuels.
Rubio, who is badly trailing Donald Trump in the race to be the Republication nominee, said Barack Obama's clean power plan, aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions, would "devastate" the American economy, all while other countries continued to pump out planet-warming gases.
HAVANA — Nearly two years into the Cuban government's economic overhaul aimed at slashing public payrolls and bolstering private enterprise, the reforms have slowed so much that many Cuban entrepreneurs and intellectuals are questioning the aging leadership's ability — or will — to reshape one of the world's last Communist systems and shift nearly half of the island's output to private hands.
George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, announced the long-awaited results of a public-spending review aimed at slashing Britain's deficit.
The Clean Power Plan ― a set of Obama-era regulations aimed at slashing emissions from coal-fired power plants and boosting renewable energy production ― had yet to go into effect, after being temporarily blocked by the Supreme Court since February 2016.
