When asked about the particulars of the budget, Marc La Vorgna, the mayor's chief spokesman on the budget, declined to comment.
"Our budget declined $67 million over two fiscal years," he added, even with a recent countywide hotel tax increase, because that money was earmarked for other purposes.
The Mailman School is newly energized, with enrollment in the master's and doctoral programs up 26 percent over the last four years, and grants from the National Institutes of Health up 12 percent in 2011 — a year in which the overall N.I.H. budget declined slightly.
The Treasury Department, which prepares its own estimates of tax revenue as part of the administration's annual budget, declined to comment ahead of the forthcoming release of those projections.
The OIG's finding that counterterrorism funding had been given short shrift at the CIA was disputed by Tenet, who noted that while the agency's budget declined by 18percentt during the 1990s, its funding level for counterterrorism immediately prior to 9/11 was more than 50percentt higher than it was in 1997.
When adjusted for inflation, the purchasing power of the NIH budget declined after 2003.
FOR years, with school budgets declining in so many American cities, museums have provided a parallel universe for learning.
In his first budget, Obama had prided himself on "honest budgeting," declining to employ the fanciful assumptions that the previous Administration had used to hide the costs of government.
Smaller travel budgets, declining demand and a weaker Australian dollar mean that it is becoming easier for international visitors to reserve a hotel room with a prized water view or to snag a table in a top restaurant.
That is a victory for the company, the nation's biggest military contractor, which had pushed for the pension change to cut costs as military budgets decline.
