Increases in the estimated impact of the law on private insurance premiums, along with increases in the estimated cost of health care more generally, have led the Congressional Budget Office to increase its estimate of the budget cost of the law's coverage expansion.
Yet, the Obama Administration, in its neverending efforts to maximize the effects of this barely 2% reduction in the increase of the federal budget on the public at large, now resorts to simply stealing money from the states.
Yesterday, the House Republican leadership introduced a bill to repeal the ACA. Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) sent a letter to the Speaker of the House giving its assessment of the budgetary effects of a repeal: it would increase the budget deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.
Like her Christian Democrat predecessor as chancellor, Helmut Kohl, she agreed that Germany would finance the lion's share of the increase in the size of the EU budget.
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Members of the European Parliament have already called for an increase in the size of the budget for this period, despite restrictions on spending by national governments in some of the European Union's 27 member states.
In 1993, President Clinton tried again with a Democrat Congress voting through a tax increase as part of another budget deal.
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The biggest component of that big increase in his budget, according to Mr Daniels, will be the expansion of Medicaid required by the new law.
So either side of the coin would increase the Japanese budget deficit to 12% to 14% of GDP from today's 8%.
Critics lodge a number of complaints, saying that these plans would increase future budget deficits, hurt the sales of annuities and the cash value of life insurance policies, lessen the attractiveness of tax-exempt bonds and wouldn't actually increase the pool of savings.
Making indexation permanent would remove the annual threat of such a tax increase and expunge from the budget this fictional source of future revenues.
Broadcasters may then be unable to fund commitments to quality and diversity, and be forced to increase their output of low-budget, advertiser-friendly programming, resulting in a diminished range of free-to-air content.
Meanwhile, Clinton plans to make a strong statement today in support of the 20-cent-a-pack cigarette tax increase included in the Senate version of the budget.
"With an increase of the millionaire's tax and a significant increase in the minimum wage, this budget takes strong steps to address income inequality, " said Michael Kink of the Strong Economy for All coalition of progressive groups.
He consistently opposed efforts to eliminate programs and offered dozens of budget amendments to increase the maximum Pell Grant.
Because of the timing of the expenditure, most of the money will increase the budget deficit for the current fiscal year.
More awkward still, any deliberate loosening of the budget would increase the risk that the deficit would reach 3% next year.
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It raises enough revenue to make a significant increase in the proportion of the Scottish Budget accounted for by the parliament's own resources.
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For example, in America a widely noted phenomenon is the consistent tendency of budget deficits to increase despite all efforts to reduce them.
Again there was mention at the recent budget of an increase in pension age and this has yet to be finalised but it is certain that pension ages will increase, although remember that there is a difference between the State Pension age and the age at which you are able to start to draw benefits for public sector or private pensions.
In March Mr Neumann was one of 11 Republicans who blocked a 14% increase in the budget that pays for the various House committees: if Congress expected the rest of the country to accept belt-tightening, it should tighten its own belt, he said.
Since interest payments now absorb about one-third of the national budget, this should eventually liberate lots of money to increase social spending.
In fact, a key GOP leader, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) had made noise about such an increase before, as part of his 2012 budget proposal.
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The EU Commission had wanted a 5% increase that would have delivered a budget of 1.033tn euros - that's more than a trillion over seven years.
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.
And Recharge News gets into the nitty gritty of the proposed budget for the Department of Energy, which would get an overall increase of 3.2 percent, with some more significant boosts for clean energy research spending.
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Reducing the budget deficit would increase the rate of growth in the economy, increase corporate profits, buttress the stock market.
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The US government may be about to increase its budget aimed at stopping the spread of HIV in the developing world.
In the Budget, Mr Osborne announced an increase of VAT up to 20%, the freezing of child benefit and a rise in personal income tax allowance.
He had called on the health secretary to put the legislation on hold until the UK coalition government's budget, when details of an increase in alcohol taxation and pricing would be revealed.
Conservative health spokesman Murdo Fraser's amendment, which welcomed the commitment from the UK coalition government to reverse Labour's increase in national insurance preventing cuts to the budget of the NHS in Scotland, was carried with 77 MSPs voting for it, 48 against and with one abstention.
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