The phrase "appropriation cut" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to budget discussions, funding allocations, or financial planning where a reduction in appropriated funds is being discussed.
Example: "The recent appropriation cut has significantly impacted our ability to fund new projects this year."
Alternatives: "budget reduction" or "funding cut".
Yet, 35 years after leaving campus, I worry that football success has obscured L.S.U.'s escalating academic ambition and its struggle to maintain excellence over the past three years in the face of about $50 million in state appropriation cuts and the loss of a tenth of its faculty.
It starts with the $1 billion in scheduled appropriations cuts over the next ten years as enacted in the Budget Control Act of 2011.
In its draft report last week it recommended that the Smithsonian's federal appropriation be cut by $225 million, or roughly 30 percent, and that the institution make up the loss by charging a $7.50 admission fee.
When his appropriation was cut off in 1892, Powell sent a terse telegram to Marsh demanding his resignation, a personal slight as well as a financial one.
As for the Corp. for Public Broadcasting-public television-federal appropriations were cut back.
Last month, a House appropriations subcommittee cut back on the administration's 2004 budget request for the arms, citing organizational disarray among the nation's bomb makers and calling "pursuit of a broad range of new initiatives premature".
A few weeks ago, the Republican-controlled appropriations committee cut the Securities and Exchange Commission's fiscal 2012 budget request by $222.5 million, to $1.19 billion (the same as this year's), even though the S.E.C.'s responsibilities were vastly expanded under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Last month, the House appropriations committee cut the agency's requested 2016 budget for census-related activities by $374 million.
Overall, the $45.2 billion bill (S. 3216) approved on 22 May by the Senate's Committee on Appropriations would cut DHS's total budget of $46.2 billion by about $1 billion over 2012 levels in the fiscal year that begins 1 October.
A bill approved by the House of Representative's committee on appropriations would cut funding for a number of cultural organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, whose budget would be slashed to $75 million for the 2014 fiscal year, a 49% decrease from the agency's funding for 2013 before the budget sequester.
