Sentence examples for sequestration cap from inspiring English sources

This means spending $74bn above the sequestration cap, which was set by the Budget Control Act of 2011.

This year's sequestration cap for NDD is $492 billion.

— radical positions like imposing sequestration, capping the debt ceiling, opposing immigration reform and shutting down the government.

Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky ., foR-Ky . has said he cannot legislate under sequestration caps.

The budget introduced by Ryan this week, for example, would cut $791 billion from non-defense discretionary spending sequestration caps.

The Obama administration has called for increases in domestic discretionary spending roughly 7percentt above the sequestration caps set to take hold in October.

"Because of what seems to be a drafting error, not one extra dollar can be spent on defense above the sequestration caps".

But such a deal would come at a cost for Democrats, since it would bring sequestration caps back into law, albeit for a few months.

Already, Republicans have passed budgets that further cut non-discretionary defense accounts while adding spending to the defense budget through an account that isn't subjected to sequestration caps.

Both the House and the Senate this week have considered Republican-authored budgets that seek to boost defense spending while cutting non-defense spending below the pending sequestration caps.

Representative Barbara Lee (D-California) described the account, in an email to VICE News, as "nothing more than a Pentagon slush fund that allows the Pentagon to live beyond its means while evading the same sequestration caps that are crippling critical federal programs that support American families".