Sentence examples for baseline spending from inspiring English sources

Pelosi also said that Republicans should accept the "clean" spending resolution passed in the Senate because it uses a baseline spending level of $986 billion, which includes the sequester cuts, versus the $1.058 trillion level favored by Democrats.

What is left, then, is $7 trillion in baseline spending for Medicaid and the social safety net — to which Mr. Ryan applies a meat cleaver, reducing outlays by $1.5 trillion, or 20 percent.

The question, however, is whether to go further... ...... Restoring pay-as-you-go means that the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of this decade--unless, that is, som coalition finds sufficient spending reductions relative to the current baseline spending path to pay for an extension of the tax cuts.

As mentioned, Washington spent $28.3 trillion over the past decade, so embedded "baseline" spending of $45.8 trillion in the coming decade already entails an astounding increase of 62%.

And the reality is that more constraints are likely to be imposed, with the chancellor's Autumn Statement already eroding baseline spending and a likely coalition Spending Review forming the basis of an effective mini defence review - then attention switches to SDSR15.

Pelosi, in a statement, said Democrats had agreed to lower the budget figure to $986 billion, the Republicans' baseline spending level, and begin a conference to delve into exactly where government spending would be cut.

You see, those cuts are merely cuts to the CBO's projected baseline spend, a baseline that has government outlays growing at an annual average rate of $205 billion per year (4.6% compounded) through 2021.

Yet Democrats lambaste GOP plans as "Draconian," prone to trigger a "depression". By "baseline" federal spending over the coming decade, the CBO means the sum that'll be spent even with no changes in current fiscal policy, whether in tax rates or spending schemes.

Against a baseline of spending levels in 2003, sales in computer stores have continued to rise.

While Congress's willingness to provide war funding — "overseas contingency operations" funds — above baseline defense spending has helped, it has not solved the problem.

Therefore, relative to the plausible baseline, state spending was substantially higher following the receipt of the Recovery Act funds.