"But there are other places in the budget where cuts can be made to preserve funding and services that we in the Council believe are core and critical".
But like other institutions that watched coffers wither in the stock market crash, it has taken major steps to preserve funds.
Subsidies for large-scale solar power installations are to be cut drastically, in a move that ministers said would preserve funds for households to put up panels, but industry warned would mean a slower uptake of renewable power.
Those changes could result in nothing more than an administrative reshuffling, were legislators to preserve funding for each entity.
"The Department of Defense spoke [to bust up the Lockheed merger], and not only did we listen, we acted to preserve our skills and capabilities in a way that will meet the future needs of our armed forces, and you shouldn't forget that," declares Crosby, who cut his teeth fighting to preserve funding for the B-2 program.
accused Democrats of favoring "oppression" for trying to preserve funding for the consumer-protection agency.
Trump's budget proposal would preserve funding for the EPA program that helps cities like Flint buy new water pipes.
"In the coming months, we face a tough fight to preserve funding for critical programs that aid victims and help put their assailants behind bars," wrote Roybal-Allard.
The agreement would preserve funding for Planned Parenthood, and doesn't contain the kinds of cuts for scientific research and the arts that Trump proposed in his budget.
As the city closed libraries, and even proposed cutting toilet paper from municipal offices, Booker pledged to preserve funding for the police department.
In addition to concerns for her constituents who benefitted from Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, Murkowksi has vowed to preserve funding for Planned Parenthood — something the current bill doesn't do.
