In exchange for opening its stage to Medina High School, which did away with its drama program in budget cuts, Lyndonville High sent students to prop up Medina's football and soccer teams and play in its championship marching band.
But Congress has slashed the loan guarantee program's budget to pay for other priorities, such as last year's "Cash for Clunkers" program to boost auto sales.
There is widespread agreement among investors and economists that the European program of stiff budget cuts while paying back a staggering mountain of debt is unsustainable.
This -- let me say first of all, I think we have improved the Medicaid program in this budget agreement, and I want to make full disclosure with the full support of the Republican negotiators over and above what it was in the budget I presented.
It would be better to roll the program into the general budget and not have separate earmarked taxes, like any other welfare program.
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It should come as no surprise to anyone that the first PMO in the FY 2001 Budget is to use performance information to improve program management and make better budget decisions.
Yet how can a public school system afford such a resource intensive program on a limited budget?
White viewed that as a preliminary ruling and ordered his staff to continue to support the program as part of the budget already submitted to Congress.
Second, would hitting the overall budget limit affect program operations?
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Let me be clear about what is happening at NASA. The Constellation program, which is over budget and behind schedule, was intended to do what we've already done, which is return a man or woman to the moon.
In 2012, the National Academy of Sciences warned that a combination of budget pressure, program delays and a pair of launch failures in 2009 and 2011 left the United States facing a "rapid decline" in its capability to monitor land and seas from space.
Congress added money to the program in this year's budget, but attached the 20% match requirement.
In our fiscal year 1986 budget, overall government program spending will be frozen at the current level.
With budget accounting, the program will pile up more revenues than its costs.
My understanding is that Shuttle job reductions have been the result of NASA efforts to streamline the Shuttle program, not because of Station budget issues.
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The program was cancelled in 2005 citing budget reasons.
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Let me be clear, I am not among those who believe that we ought to use the defense budget as a jobs program or that we should be pursuing military programs for other than legitimate defense purposes.
Ironically, there are rumors of flagging Navy support in recent budget deliberations for a program that could effectively provide U.S. carrier battle groups with several means for mitigating these missile threats: the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System (N-UCAS).
Would you balk at funding a program that spends 23% of its budget to raise money?
But now, with the overall budget numbers set, the program-by-program review and hard detail work must begin.
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Even before they did so, forty-one U.S. Senators wrote President Obama warning him that they would not support ratification of a follow-on START accord unless his budget explicitly funded a modernization program for our deterrent forces.
We know that any government program is plagued with overlapping entities and different budget authorities.
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The Budget also includes other investments in program integrity throughout the Federal government that has the potential to generate additional savings.
Karen Finn, an agency spokeswoman, says that while the EnhancedView accounts budget request is classified, the program will see "significant reductions" in fiscal 2013.
While the budget outline does not make specific program cuts, it would likely mean federal funding for most of these programs would be entirely eliminated.
The BPP program, which is operating on a minimal budget, now has more than 800 online volunteers, ranging from ornithologists to amateur bird watchers to ordinary citizens looking to translate a piece of science history.
But Medicaid is a program aimed at the poor and it faces severe budget issues.
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Of the major budget areas polled, Medicare was the program where the public was most resistant to cuts.
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Josephine County's budget was dependent on a federal subsidy program, which dispersed money to offset shrinking timber receipts to 33 counties in the state, he said.
The Boston attack renewed attention on federal budget cuts that reduced spending for a program called Urban Areas Security Initiative, which pays for equipment, training and salaries for counterterrorism efforts.
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