Sentence examples for outside entitlement from inspiring English sources

The budget initially called for discretionary spending -- outside entitlement programs like Medicare -- about 4percentt higher than in the current fiscal year this weekk, congressional negotiations pushed it closer to 5percentt higher.

But all the initiatives proposed in the president's speech Tuesday night for schools, defense modernization, aid to religious institutions and other items amount to less than $15 billion, or less than 5percentt of domestic spending outside entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.

The overall size of the cuts will remain the same, as will the short-term impact on the economy, because total spending outside of entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security must remain beneath a hard cap of $984 billion.

And keep in mind that the discretionary budget includes virtually everything the government does outside of entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

"The public is rightly very, very upset if they feel that a member of parliament has acted outside of their entitlement," O'Dwyer said.

The report acknowledges that the existing entitlements system is piecemeal, incomplete, confusing and lacks transparency, leading to travel that has been "inside entitlement but outside community expectations".

"Regrettably, not withstanding rules that this government put in place... there are still too many situations where members of parliament can do things that are inside entitlement, but outside public expectations," he told reporters.

For instance, to meet its deficit reduction targets, the House budget calls for nearly $1.9 trillion in savings from entitlement programs outside Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, so called other mandatory spending, but it instructs committee chairmen to draft legislation securing a tiny fraction of that amount.

Robert Greenstein, executive director of the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities, said "discretionary" domestic spending — which is everything outside national security and entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — is falling to historic lows as a proportion of the overall economy, roughly 3percentt or less.

Les Fabian Brathwaite went a step further, arguing that Grand needed to "step outside of his own entitlement" before opening his mouth, for Out magazine.  .

It also voted to institute tough five-year caps on spending for discretionary programs, which essentially cover everything outside of Social Security and other entitlement programs.