The phrase "attaching funding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the process of providing or securing financial resources for a project or initiative.
Example: "The organization is focused on attaching funding to innovative community programs to enhance their impact."
Alternatives: "securing funding" or "allocating funds".
(It doesn't help that the Republicans in control of the House in 2011 banned earmarking, an age-old practice of attaching funds for pet projects to bills to make it easier for legislators to swallow concessions and show gains to their constituents).
The best mechanism for this would be to attach funding to pupils, not schools, so giving successful schools the money and the incentive to expand.Proposals such as these will meet a storm of protest.
It's about the growing public opinion against Congress giving open-ended, no strings attached funding for the president to continue the wars.
Now America needs Congress to attach funds to their promises.
She says she would be "open to using them if they're not directly attached to funding" – but points out that using the same criteria of measurement for everything and everyone is "inherently crude".
While no development initiatives can function without some money, the wealth required to fund them in Edwards' words, "raises questions about inequality, the strings attached to funding, and the power of those who hold them to push resources to causes they approve of, perhaps even weakening or corrupting authentic social action in the process".
If Democrats proceed in attaching war funds - whether for Iraq, Afghanistan or both - to the omnibus spending bill, leadership will have increased its chances of circumventing a presidential veto.
But attaching war funds to the omnibus also would require the Democrats to abandon the idea of a date certain withdrawal (or a goal to that effect) of troops from Iraq.
These limited local financial resources and the restrictions attached to funding received from the central government limit the possible actions of decentralized governments.
