Sentence examples for offsetting the deficit from inspiring English sources

"Unless unemployment is paid for, I can't support it". (Nelson and Republicans do not insist on offsetting the deficit impact of tax cuts for the rich, estimated to be near $700 billion. The progressive Economic Policy Institute puts the cost of a full year's worth of extended unemployment benefits at $65 billion).

With no bowl money to offset the deficit, the university discontinued its football program.

"Unless the U.S. economy recovers sharply, it will be increasingly difficult for the U.S. to attract that high-quality investment that can offset the deficit".

Vietnam also runs a massive trade deficit with its neighbour and has been pushing China's government to invest more in the country to offset the deficit.

WASHINGTON — Linking two of the politically volatile issues of the moment, Senate Democrats say they will move forward this week with a plan that would eliminate tax breaks for big oil companies and divert the savings to offset the deficit.

"Raising tax rates will slow down our ability to create the jobs that everyone says they want," said Mr. Boehner, who said he favored generating any new federal revenue to offset the deficit by closing tax loopholes and limiting deductions.

A quirk in the way the tax bill is written is tempting some key senators and Administration officials to do precisely what the President had been saying he would never allow & what a number of senators who are seriously concerned about the stubborn & still enormous deficit said should not be done: use revenues raised by the tax bill in the early stages to offset the deficit.

Obama and fellow Democrats insisted on taxing the wealthy to offset the deficit impact of the payroll tax cut and of providing jobless benefits to the long-term unemployed.

"Our nation's healthcare workforce depends on the care provided by physicians and medical students with DACA status, who are trained at medical schools in the United States and fill gaps in patient care, as well as offset the deficit in the physician workforce," wrote AMA chief executive Dr. James Madara in a letter to Congressional leaders.

Republicans today seem unlikely to favor raising taxes to pay for unemployment benefits, as demonstrated by the party's refusal to offset the deficit impact of reauthorizing the soon-to-expire tax cuts for the wealthy, which the administration estimates would cost $678 billion over ten years.

Thus, although we found diploid males to produce fewer daughters when mated to a single female, they may offset the deficit through increased mating activity when females are abundant.