Sentence examples for maintain the cuts from inspiring English sources

Republicans want to maintain the cuts; Democrats want them eliminated for the nation's highest earners.

Republicans campaigned in last month's midterm elections to maintain the cuts for all tax payers.

But so far the new chancellor, Philip Hammond – despite indicating that the previous fiscal rule is now unworkable – is refusing to say whether he intends to maintain the cuts it demands or revise the government's fiscal stance.

While Republicans are gaining unity in their fight against looming cuts to the Pentagon, it is not clear that Democrats are working together to maintain the cuts, which Mr. Obama has said must stay in place in the absence of an acceptable compromise on taxes and spending.

While the White House and nonpartisan economists maintain the cuts will significantly harm individual Americans and also the broader U.S. economy, some Republicans have said the potential damage has been exaggerated.

But negotiators are far apart in how to cover the $160 billion it would cost to maintain the cut, extend expiring unemployment benefits and avoid deep cuts in fees to doctors treating Medicare patients.

Mr. Boehner, they said, was open to letting Bush-era tax cuts for wealthy people expire, while maintaining the cuts for middle-income wage-earners.

Extending tax cuts for high earners would do little to strengthen the economy and add jobs, Romer said, while maintaining the cuts for lower earners would provide an immediate stimulus.

Brian De Palma isn't talking, and neither is Paramount, but indications are that the outspoken director has bowed to pressure from the studio and the Motion Picture Assn. of America to make cuts in his new movie "Snake Eyes". De Palma blasted the MPAA last week and said he would not trim the film to get a PG-13 rating, maintaining the cuts would damage the movie.

And now that those tax cuts have contributed to a soaring deficit, he wants to maintain the tax cuts while cutting Social Security benefits.

John Ellinwood, a spokesman for Mr. Kelly, would not say whether the candidate supports the Ryan budget or the House Republican decision to maintain the Medicare cuts he is decrying.