For example, his budget would base a spending increase for Medicaid on the rate of medical inflation, which is less than half the 13% increase previously assumed in the budget.
We are operating today with a reduced budget because the CR funds us at FY12 base budget levels.
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But if budget sequestration is added on top of the cuts under way in overseas contingency spending and the base budget, then the Pentagon loses a trillion dollars during the coming decade compared with what it otherwise might have had.
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The council spokesman said the costs were built into the base budget calculations and had no impact on the provision of council services.
Over the past 20 years the base defence budget has averaged 3.3% of GDP.
But we have certainly attempted to base the budget projections on our best estimate of what lies ahead.
Even war spending is subjected to the same scrutiny that the base defense budget and other spending is.
Mr Harrison points out that the base defence budget has not been 4% of GDP since 1992, in the aftermath of the cold war.
He has also crowed about the Foundation's new office in a building at the historic Presidio, a military facility recently disestablished as part of the recent round of defense budget cuts and attendant base closures.
This one actually represents an 11 percent increase in the 2007 budget, just for the base operations.
Dragons coach Paul Turner has had to build his player base on a budget that is shoestring in comparison with that of the other three Welsh regions: Cardiff Blues, Llanelli Scarlets and the Ospreys.
Faced with budget deficits, an eroding tax base and the legal and political impediments to raising tax rates, soda is an easy target.
Barack Obama, for one, seems to assume that the Republicans will indulge in a spell of futile pandering to their base before compromising on the budget and perhaps a few other matters.
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His selection is widely seen as an effort to enthuse the Republican base, which likes his government-shrinking budget proposals.
Another wrinkle is that the UK Treasury has also chosen to set 2011 as the base year for calculating the "frozen" budget - not 2013, which might seem more natural and would allow a larger number than the 886bn euros the Treasury has been insisting on.
The Navy said the Blue Angels will continue to train at their base in Pensacola, Florida, for when the budget crunch ends.
Both islands host American bases, and even in these straitened times the Pentagon's budget can stretch to an experimental technology that might reduce a base's fuel consumption.
The Navy has five aircraft carriers tied up at its base in Norfolk, Virginia, all subject to various budget constraints.
Qinetiq, which has major sites in Farnborough, Malvern and Boscombe Down, said it needed to cut jobs as part of a widespread review of its UK cost-base following cuts in the Ministry of Defence's research budget.
In fact, the U.S. industrial base is already experiencing significant contractions in the face of cumulative defense budget reductions over the past five years.
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First, U.S. investment in its own research and development technology base is likely to be significantly reduced as a result of defense budget cuts.
Countries with heavy debt burdens (like Italy), whose tax base has collapsed (Ireland and Spain), which had a big budget deficit to start with (Britain) or whose long-term growth prospects have been hit hardest (Spain) should fear a sudden loss of investors' confidence more than those with smaller deficits (Germany), better demographic prospects (America) or a reserve currency (America again).
The U.S. industrial base is already experiencing significant contractions in the face of sustained reductions in the defense budget over the past five years.
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