Sentence examples for another big entitlement from inspiring English sources

Others called it another big entitlement program.

Cool heads in both parties know that the big entitlement programmes, which grow automatically, need fixing.

In 2003 he signed into law the first big entitlement in years, the prescription-drug benefit.

The Democrats refused to consider structural reforms to the big entitlement programmes (Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security).

The $2.5 trillion in cuts would exclude the military, and would not touch the big entitlement programs, Medicare and Social Security.

The current crop of Democrats are less angelic: they are a protectionist bunch and they show few signs of wanting to curb big entitlement programmes.

That leaves Social Security, the other big entitlement benefits program and one that Mr. Obama has suggested in the past that he is willing to tackle.

Given the popularity of those two big entitlement programs, even some of the most fiscally conservative Republican candidates resisted endorsing Mr. Ryan's proposal in the fall elections.

The package is significantly larger than the annual appropriations for all domestic programs other than the three big entitlement programs, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Mandatory spending in the nation's three big entitlement programs -- Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security -- is expected to climb by $366 billion over the next five years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate's top Republican is suggesting a short-term increase in the nation's borrowing limit unless there is deal soon that includes changes to big entitlement programs.