WE'VE STILL GOT A LOT MORE TO DO. AND IT REALLY IS ENTITLEMENTS AND IT'S HEALTH CARE ENTITLEMENTS WE HAVE TO GET UNDER CONTROL.
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Jackson Diehl, deputy editorial page editor: Is some of that going to entitlements so you have a plan to stabilize entitlements, Medicare and Medicaid?
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" He cited, for example, Mike Allen asking Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles "whether they believed Obama would do 'the right thing' on entitlements — with 'the right thing' clearly meaning 'cut entitlements.
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Entitlements, the deficit and debt Fact: over the next eight years, 75% of the federal budget is projected to go to entitlements (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security) and interest on the federal debt.
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ROBERT FRANK: Who is paying— STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER: Oh, the entitlements?
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Both groups want the government to spend more on entitlements.
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You are it, access and entitlements are rooted in identity.
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For many, the answer is to just leave entitlements alone.
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ENTITLEMENTS IN THIS COUNTRY IS THE THIRD RAIL OF POLITICS.
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Lamar Alexander of Tennessee also said entitlements are to blame.
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How deep are the cuts and do they touch entitlements?
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Democrats create dependency by expanding federal mandates and increasing entitlements.
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It also has water entitlements enough to fill Sydney Harbour.
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Trump has also proposed to cut grants for Medicaid entitlements.
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Moreover, there needs to be greater standardization of benefit entitlements.
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And the other, economic conservatives who want to — reduce entitlements.
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Bernie Sanders, have hammered Trump for his remarks on entitlements.
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CNBC: Will entitlements ever be on your plate [for cutting]?
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Entitlements built up until the scheme closes will be unaffected.
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"Frankly, it's the health care entitlements that are the big drivers of our debt, so we spend more time on the health care entitlements — because that's really where the problem lies, fiscally speaking," Ryan said.
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"Frankly, it's the health-care entitlements that are the big drivers of our debt, so we spend more time on the health-care entitlements — because that's really where the problem lies, fiscally speaking," he added.
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But you probably want to – you wouldn't want to expand entitlements.
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What we say, again, access and entitlements are rooted in identity.
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But maintaining these entitlements does not fully protect workers' retirement income.
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Sovereign rights cover entitlements to fish and extraction of natural resources.
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It also directly contradicts his initial promises not to touch entitlements.
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They are administrative entitlements, which a government can terminate with legislation.
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Not many GOP lawmakers came to Washington campaigning to add entitlements.
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We should be stopping mandates, taxes and entitlements, not keeping them.
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Mulvaney previously said the top-line budget proposal wouldn't address entitlements.
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But in general, entitlements have to be slowed down and contained.
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KERNEN: I COULD GUILT YOU INTO – YOU'RE NOT DONE ON ENTITLEMENTS.
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Mandatory spending is driven by entitlements, namely Social Security and Medicare.
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Reform can be started by making these entitlements purely needs-based.
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Long-term, reforming entitlements would have to play a central role.
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Not totally fair since Congress is not going to touch entitlements.
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They have rights and entitlements that must be upheld and promoted.
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Beginning in the 1930s during the Depression, Congress gradually added federal entitlements.
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Minimum entitlements, like decent housing and health care, require someone to pay.
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Talk of putting entitlements next on the agenda has divided GOP ranks.
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City councils do something else: They grant privileges, or entitlements, or protections.
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There are other costly items, too, particularly in the area of entitlements.
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In 28503, the federal government spent 22019 percent of GDP on entitlements.
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Biden denied backing the commission, or any plans to cut popular entitlements.
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Most do not have maternity entitlements and have limited access to welfare.
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You see more government spending, more entitlements more tax credit, more penalties.
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BUT HERE'S WHY IT REALLY DOESN'T: At the end of the day, paid family leave is a hard sell for Republicans, who are actively trying to decrease the number of government entitlements (or what they see as entitlements).
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IS IT ENTITLEMENTS, WHICH ARE GOVERNMENT AUTHORIZED, OR IS IT THE MARKET ADJUSTING?
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JOE KERNEN: Secretary, would the fiscal restraint in the second term include entitlements?
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" In ad, Balderson flip-flops on cuts to entitlements - Columbus Dispatch : "State Sen.
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"We should be stopping mandates, taxes and entitlements not keeping them," he tweeted.
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There is not one word about cutting deficits or spending, or reforming entitlements.
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Once they are passed, entitlements don't help politicians demonstrate leadership or solve problems.
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Yet, there is something oddly bizarre about this new welfare and entitlements scheme.
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They favor entitlements that provide current benefits, particularly related to an aging population.
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New entitlements like free college are not the answer, no matter how enticing.
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New redistributive promises quickly become entitlements, expand and are nearly impossible to unwind.
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You see more government spending, more entitlements, more tax credits, more tax penalties.
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On taxes as well as trade and entitlements, many simply don't support it.
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"Cannabis use can have an effect on your federal entitlements," he tells VICE.
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Or are their sights more trained on bigger legislative overhauls tied to entitlements?
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The Republicans have targeted entitlements for cuts because they are our biggest expense.
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Bernie blocked on entitlements: Senate Republicans blocked a push on Tuesday by Sen.
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Free marketers were shocked by his unorthodox views on international trade and entitlements.
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"These reforms take away entitlements and it's hard for people to accept that their entitlements are being taken away by lawmakers embroiled in scandals," said Octavio Amorim Neto, a political scientist at Fundação Getulio Vargas University in Rio de Janeiro.
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Many conservatives in Congress opposed the tax credits, which they consider to be entitlements.
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AS ENTITLEMENTS GO UP, GROSS DOMESTIC SAVINGS GOES DOWN AS A PERCENT OF GDP.
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Mandatory spending which is entitlements, that goes to $2 trillion over the next decade.
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And conservative commentators have exposed his apostasy on issues like free trade and entitlements.
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Darwen's local council promises "Al Capone tactics" to target dealers' benefits and housing entitlements.
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"The Republican policy agenda around taxes, budgets, and entitlements are very unpopular," Grossmann says.
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McConnell has clearly said he doesn't want to overhaul entitlements on a partisan basis.
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Entitlements and interest already account for more than 60 percent of the federal budget.
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The Democrats will be critical of Trump regardless of what he does on entitlements.
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But his heterodoxy on entitlements certainly helped at least somewhat, especially with older voters.
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Of course you can't do that without addressing entitlements," Johnson told CNBC's "Squawk Box.
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And then you aren't even talking about entitlements and what we owe there, Wilbur.
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Regular workers receive entitlements such as annual leave, rest breaks and the minimum wage.
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Once Americans are given certain entitlements, it's difficult to take them away, he explained.
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" The president said strong US growth made addressing entitlements "the easiest of all things.
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Yet, the interest our government pays on its debt will surpass entitlements by 2050.
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Of course, targeting our debt requires that we also address its primary drivers: entitlements.
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He later added when asked about entitlements: 'Well, we're going — we're going to look.
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The federal budget for the health care entitlements is more than $213 billion this year.
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Yet, you as well as Ms. Fiorina have laid forward no plan to reform entitlements.
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One is to reduce dramatically the scale of welfare entitlements, social security and Medicare payments.
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"If someone wants to get serious about debt, come talk to me about entitlements," Rep.
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Just In: When will entitlements like Social Security and Medicare be looked at for reforms??
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Entitlements: Information about what a device is allowed to do with content, such as recording.
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Trump promised to balance the budget while cutting taxes and preserving entitlements — which isn't possible.
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Trump's refusal to reform entitlements programs would increase the country's debt and deficit, she added.
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Conservatives want more money for defense and to slash spending on domestic programs and entitlements.
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GREENSPAN: BECAUSE CUTTING SOCIAL BENEFITS OR CUTTING ENTITLEMENTS IS THE THIRD RAIL OF AMERICAN POLITICS.
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It seems clear that this program is exempt from his pledges to never cut entitlements.
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Their well-established substantive differences on trade, immigration and entitlements should not be a barrier.
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He ran against changes to entitlements, but he has a "Nixon goes to China" opportunity.
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"Unlike all these establishment Republicans, he's been adamant about never touching entitlements," Mr. Stone said.
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QUINTANILLA: WE WANT TO COVER SO MANY THINGS: BITCOIN, POWELL, BALANCE SHEET RUNOFF, ENTITLEMENTS, DEBT.
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The North American Securities Administrators Association details your entitlements in its Investor Bill of Rights.
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Deal with entitlements, that's why we're frustrated health care reform hasn't passed the Senate yet.
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Pence is in the Paul Ryan school — free trade, cutbacks on entitlements like Social Security.
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Voters have recoiled when presented with proposals to cut entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.
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At the same time, he's broken with the party consensus on free trade and entitlements.
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Because Congress refuses to touch entitlements or raise taxes, it will confront a binary proposition.
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" He said that House Republicans would soon turn toward "welfare reform and tackling the entitlements.
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It makes steep cuts to domestic programs and entitlements like Medicare while increasing military spending.
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My generation will say we paid into the system for decades and deserve our entitlements.
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Warren would focus on programs like "Medicare for All," free college and other new entitlements.
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The Social Security and Medicare trustees warn us that we are facing an entitlements cliff.
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"I'm not voting to create new entitlements for insurance companies," Paul told Fox News Thursday.
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On the spending side, unfortunately, taking a hard look at the entitlements programs is essential.
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What happens if President Clinton gets polling suggesting a majority of voters support slashing entitlements?
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"That's the type of system we're dealing with unless we can confront the issue of entitlements."
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A fight over entitlements is a non-starter for most Republicans in an election year, however.
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Some have long paid-leave entitlements, but provide skimpy benefits for a large part of them.
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Because programs like food stamps are entitlements, they are guaranteed to everyone who qualifies for benefits.
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Entitlements and immigration finally got their moments in the third and final presidential debate Wednesday night.
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Yet others point to massive deficits coming from higher spending on entitlements as the population ages.
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Despite this coming gusher of red ink, neither Trump nor Clinton propose monkeying around with entitlements.
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THE WORD ENTITLEMENTS HAS NOT APPEARED IN ANY OF THE TRANSCRIPTS -- EISEN: NO, IN THE DEBATES.
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" Balanced budget: "I believe it's impossible" to balance the budget without touching entitlements or "mandatory spending.
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"I accept community annoyance, even anger, with politicians' entitlements and it demands a response," Ley said.
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They certainly don't want any able-bodied people who could be working getting any such entitlements.
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Next, set up two blue-ribbon commissions: one on executive branch organization and one on entitlements.
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The program of hobbling our young people with entitlements requires that those books cannot be found.
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I said, 'You've got to be kidding — because he represented cutting entitlements, et cetera, et cetera.
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Rachel Greszler is a research fellow specializing in economics, budget and entitlements at The Heritage Foundation.
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The kingdom has cut back on entitlements, subsidies on things like fuel, and even on salaries.
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Regular workers, by contrast, receive entitlements such as annual leave, rest breaks and the minimum wage.
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His campaign promoted an article headlined "Why Donald Trump Won't Touch Your Entitlements" on its website.
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Do you believe that the Pentagon's budget is a threat to entitlements, such as Social Security?
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SO WE'RE AT A PRETTY BIG NUMBER AND I NEVER HEAR ANY TALK ABOUT ENTITLEMENTS ANYMORE.
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These entitlements tend by their very nature to run on autopilot, driving the debt inexorably higher.
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It's that he's also promised to maintain funding for entitlements while increasing spending on the military.
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You'd probably want to fix entitlements and debt with the money you raised— STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER: Yes, Joe.
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Like many conservatives (myself included), Ryan believes that reforming entitlements is key to the nation's better future.
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Note, however, that the Chamber and AFP do agree somewhat on issues of immigration, trade, and entitlements.
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Such funds are used for entitlements such as Medicaid and Medicare, veterans' services and foster care programmes.
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Right away I increased spending on law enforcement, cut corporate taxes and slashed entitlements across the board.
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The topics: debt and entitlements, immigration, economy, Supreme Court, foreign hot spots and fitness to be president.
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You know, I think in that case, I happen to believe that entitlements have to be reviewed.
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They are debt and entitlements, immigration, economy, Supreme Court, foreign hot spots and fitness to be president.
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Paul Ryan said it was his biggest regret to not touch entitlements when he had the House.
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Patients who are on the mend sometimes sell unused blood entitlements to those who are still ill.
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Then again, funding entitlements isn't exactly a winning issue for red-state Republicans running against vulnerable Democrats.
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Entitlements – these are account flags that grant players things like their pre-order incentives and demo access.
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Reforming these entitlements is a big political challenge, but the authors at times want it both ways.
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Entitlements and taxes Medicare, Social Security and taxes were essentially tied for fifth place as top issues.
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That's because more than 60 percent of government spending is for entitlements: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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Trump's apparent willingness to break with GOP dogma on foreign policy and entitlements only reinforced this belief.
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They would make the step of reforming entitlements, and decreasing mandatory outlays as a result, a reality.
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These programs are grants, not entitlements, and when the applications exceed the available funds, many are denied.
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The cost of all these entitlements is having a significant dampening effect on our nation's economic growth.
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I would say (people of color are fearful now) because they're not going to get their entitlements.
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Editorial Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, is a longtime proponent of slashing entitlements.
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And as he degrades, he plays to those very same entitlements in the base that elected him.
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Trump worries them because he deviates from the conservative line on issues like free trade and entitlements.
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During his Thursday rally in Iowa, Trump warned of the threat of Democrats making changes to entitlements.
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Victimization is the academic left's chief currency, the means of establishing a pecking order and granting entitlements.
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Their report about how to deal with the entitlements program was more or less ignored in Washington.
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Unfortunately, rising entitlements and tax cuts have together made the country's underlying fiscal situation less than strong.
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The government would still have to fund its agencies, the military, entitlements and all its other expenses.
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If the American middle class wants European-style entitlements, it will have to accept European-level taxes.
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Second, while Republicans have little experience in repealing/reforming entitlements they are very good at cutting taxes.
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It would not prevent legislators from voting for new entitlements or force them to balance the budget.
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He embraced social programs and so-called entitlements, rejecting the party's boilerplate on government and the economy.
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Trump had no appetite for cutting entitlements, so Ryan got what he could, and he got out.
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It&aposs disappointing to see some in the GOP sign on to a huge growth in the entitlements.
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The miracle he would have to strike is for Congress to restructure entitlements and reform the tax system.
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No serious attempt to reduce the public debt can succeed without either cutting these entitlements or raising taxes.
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At tonight's final presidential debate, moderator Chris Wallace plans to touch the third rail of American politics: entitlements.
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He criticized core elements of the measure as "new entitlements," a strong signal his vote may be lost.
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Harwood: But if he doesn't want to change entitlements, why did you go along with the Medicaid reductions?
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There was no talk about foreign policy, the deficit, entitlements -- subjects always front-and-center at Republican debates.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already nixed the idea of tackling entitlements in his chamber next year.
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Like Carter, Trump ran hard against his party, decrying its most basic orthodoxies on trade, immigration, and entitlements.
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In the long run, it will decrease government entitlements and put many more people in the work force.
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Braun didn't respond directly to Donnelly's comments on entitlements, but Republicans have accused Democrats of mischaracterizing McConnell's comments.
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Mr. Trump, for example, has abandoned Republican orthodoxy and said that he would make no cutbacks to entitlements.
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"I am voting not to advance my wish-list on taxes, entitlements, regulation, and judicial appointments," Frum writes.
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His administration has promised not to cut entitlements, and he's obviously promising to spend more on the military.
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"Sixty percent of the federal budget is benefits or entitlements and debt service," Bloomberg said in December 2010.
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Congress will never reduce spending on entitlements until it has developed the political muscle to cut discretionary spending.
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Additionally, the surging costs of entitlements aren't the only monetary problem the government faces in our immediate future.
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As it stands, the lion's share of our budget already is gobbled up by entitlements and military spending.
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By number, hundreds of Ten employees owed pension and leave entitlements, are likely to have a decisive vote.
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Because our pool of savings is being drained by government borrowing into entitlements, federal salaries and military adventures.
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But Mr. Schultz could adopt a more conservative message focused on entitlements, the deficit or even political correctness.
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As the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office regularly points out, entitlements are the fundamental driver of the national debt.
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And while Trump says he'll cut spending in other areas, these savings would be drops in the entitlements ocean.
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The document is a "skinny" budget that ignores taxes and entitlements like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps.
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Did you anticipate Republican voters would elect an anti-trade, pro-status-quo-on-entitlements Democrat as their nominee?
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The total $21625 trillion figure also anticipates about $2900 trillion in spending on Social Security, Medicare and other entitlements.
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Instead, we are spending on current consumption, in the form of entitlements, health care, military expansion and government bureaucracy.
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Because block-granted programs aren't entitlements, they basically all run the risk of cutting off people who need help.
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Opposition politicians say an automated debt-collection system has miscalculated welfare entitlements and wrongly demanded repayments from many recipients.
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Again, in the world of entitlements, I know that you're you and I can confirm that you're low risk.
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Provincial and national regulators have issued guidance for employers regarding employee rights and entitlements to remuneration during this time.
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Eligibility criteria and entitlements vary according to precise circumstances; for instance, flight distance, delay duration and re-routing itineraries.
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But old people tend to vote, and vote for Republicans, so naturally Mulvaney left that part of entitlements alone.
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WHAT WE HAVE TO DO AND NOBODY WANTS TO TOUCH IS THE RISE IN ENTITLEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES.
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Late last month he told a televised town hall meeting that Congress must cut "entitlements" to reduce the debt.
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Since 2200 entitlements have been cut at least ten times while the system has been reformed at least four.
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In other words, they voted to protect their entitlements, and against other groups they believed might infringe upon them.
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And, they don't want any premium credit entitlements to help lower and middle-income people to buy health insurance.
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They're trying to do other things in terms of tax reform to take away entitlements from the poor people.
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If the focus is on whether he's still hanging on to his promises of delivering government entitlements, he loses.
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Who is willing to touch the "third rail of politics" and rein in existing entitlements, rather than grow them?
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There is no suggestion that the 60 percent of federal spending known as entitlements will be addressed at all.
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Beyond the infrastructure plan, House Speaker Paul Ryan has suggested he wants to pursue an entitlements overhaul next year.
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Trump hasn't offered a plan on entitlements since taking office, and his first top-line budget is weeks away.
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Economists say it will be difficult to take a chunk out of the $2628 trillion debt without tackling entitlements.
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"I mean, they both support the military industrial complex, the Federal Reserve, deficits, entitlements, invasions of privacy," he added.
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The real estate mogul pledged that he wouldn't cut entitlements if elected president, in contrast to his primary rivals.
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Congress needs to take a hard look at reforming entitlements if the United States is going to avert disaster.
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But Ryan himself has acknowledged that an attempt to reform entitlements would stand no chance of passage this year.
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Until now, the president has taken the issues of Medicare, Social Security and entitlements in general off the table.
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If a child is born, he or she is a rightful child, with all legal entitlements from both parents.
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"We have defense, entitlements and taxes to deal with at the same time there are record deficits," he said.
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The other is that Republicans are already looking at said deficit, licking their chops and preparing to cut entitlements.
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He has made other cuts to entitlements and introduced other tolls and taxes that have resulted in significant protests.
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They could at least complicate efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act or squeeze entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid.
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Every year we sink an increasing portion of all federal spending into mandatory entitlements like Medicare and Social Security.
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It represents a real attempt by Speaker Ryan to overhaul entitlements and send authority for Medicaid to the states.
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But the trajectory of entitlements in the United States is one of the most significant challenges the country faces.
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Trump, meanwhile, has made clear he has little interest in tackling the biggest drivers of the national debt: entitlements.
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AND ALL OF THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT ENTITLEMENTS ARE EMBODIED IN THE OUTLOOK AND THEY WILL NEVER CHANGE THEIR PATTERN.
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Exactly, and you can understand the entitlements on other platforms, and that is definitely a big component of our strategy.
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We can't underestimate the fundamental ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans on the entitlements–of which Obamacare is just one.
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"Donald Trump has said that entitlements are off the table and he doesn't want to cut defense spending," Pento said.
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But I think it still can be private and protected because it's about entitlements, what do you need to know?
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Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes.
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That would be Donald Trump — the red-tailed hawk of border security, defender of entitlements and opponent of free-trade.
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A spokesman said the company was also calling for a change in legislation to provide other entitlements to its couriers.
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So too, the paper notes, does the existence of certain loopholes in the international agreements which affirm basic human entitlements.
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There were some fairly comprehensive reforms proposed to welfare entitlements, including tightened eligibility to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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Criticizing trade, defending entitlements, and professing a desire to cover more people has proved to be good politics for Trump.
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It has overhauled labour laws, offsetting easier dismissal with gradually enhanced job security and welfare entitlements for newly hired workers.
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But these changes also create confusion about the rights and entitlements of workers, and add to the potential for exploitation.
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An international tribunal ruled last year that Beijing violated Manila's entitlements and no country has sole rights to fish there.
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Sry, didn't think slowing expansion of entitlements in a dismal economy meant I was for getting rid of those programs.
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About two-thirds of the budget is comprised of interest on the debt and entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.
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To rein it in, the Trump administration and Congressional Republicans have targeted cutting entitlements that many Trump supporters depend on.
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Here, unlike other entitlements or other mandatory benefits, disabilities were caused by the government and flowed directly from government service.
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The bottom line is that, given economic entitlements and underlying social forces, we may be at the fullest employment possible.
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Fiscal conservatives are terrified that Trump will spend a ton of money on construction projects and refuse to cut entitlements.
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Only rarely does it grapple with the two-thirds of the spending of the government that involves entitlements or revenues.
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One place to start is with entitlements that are not needs-based but are just tied to people getting older.
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And another thing is these are also criteria that we use to kind of identify legitimate entitlements of poor people.
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By excluding entitlements, the budget outline is silent on most of the federal government's efforts to reduce poverty in America.
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Even as Trump has pledged to protect entitlements, his budgets show he has already been looking to scale them down.
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"Giving away this, and giving away that," she scoffs at promises to expand social entitlements and healthcare for illegal immigrants.
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Yes, we do have an entitlements problem that is eating up our federal budget and squeezing out our discretionary budget.
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But earlier this month he signaled that he's open to cutting federal entitlements, including Medicare, to reduce the federal deficit.
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It cuts taxes on the wealthy, ends government mandates and slashes entitlements — a dream come true for the ideological right.
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"Conservatives don't want new taxes, new entitlements and an 'ObamaCare Lite' bill," they wrote on the website of Fox News.
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That means spending is likely to continue rising, the tax cuts will remain in place and entitlements won't get touched.
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Even before the budget deal, the Treasury is ramping up new debt issuance to pay for tax cuts and entitlements.
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Buffett: Well, I would say that I would agree with Charlie on that, in terms of the entitlements and Social Security.
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Cornefert said Sonnen might pay back earnings from the balancing market to customers in the form of entitlements to free power.
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If slashing entitlements makes you queasy, another idea the administration has talked about is closing many of its foreign military bases.
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Younger voters make up the bulk of Bernie Sanders supporters thanks to his promises to expand big government "protections" and entitlements.
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"What we have to do but nobody wants to touch is a rise in entitlements in the United States," he said.
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It echoes the entitlements already conferred by the Danish version, as well as enshrining the Faroese language and outlawing sex discrimination.
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But he also punctured the Republicans' tattered economic orthodoxy, defending entitlements and blaming free trade for hollowing out the middle class.
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This position is captured by their workplace seniority, earnings and other entitlements (such as paid parental leave and flexible work arrangements).
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Moreover, we don't want and can't afford another giant welfare program when our existing entitlements costs threaten ever-larger budget deficits.
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He offered his own budget blueprint that targets entitlements and balances in five years, though it was rejected by the Senate.
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Unfortunately, beyond potential healthcare reforms currently in the political pipeline, the plan fails to meaningfully address the massive growth in entitlements.
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But whatever approach is most promising, America desperately needs a long-term budget for entitlements and the revenues to support them.
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Main Street's members drove reforms to education, entitlements, environmental statutes and transportation funding that had been waiting decades for Congressional action.
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Future unfunded liabilities — largely consisting of entitlements and interest on the debt — push our total debt burden to over $100 trillion.
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She believes Mr. Trump will bring jobs back to the United States, cut the national debt and reduce spending on entitlements.
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Mr. Trump all but ran against elements of the Koch agenda in 2016, promising support for entitlements, infrastructure and the military.
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But for my kids and my siblings who don't have those entitlements: How will they get where they need to be?
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In June of that year, Bloomberg said that entitlements, specifically Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, would bankrupt us if left unchecked.
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The estimate about 250,000 pregnant workers not getting proper entitlements every year was from the National Partnership on Women and Families.
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What would be the harm in allowing a Republican corgi to argue about entitlements or climate change with its Democratic owner?
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This is still a negative conception of rights — restrictions on what the state can do versus entitlements for the people themselves.
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Forming a union will help Foodora couriers negotiate better working conditions, wages, benefits and other entitlements, which are currently not guaranteed.
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Paul Ryan Until recently, Ryan was regarded as the Republican idea man, whose riff on cutting entitlements made conservative intellectuals swoon.
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Are there Hispanic swing voters who would vote for a Republican who promised to protect entitlements and avoid messy foreign wars?
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Leaving entitlements alone and cutting elsewhere Another key Trump campaign promise was his vow to his voters, especially those in blue collar Midwestern swing states that he would not touch entitlements like Social Security or Medicare -- vast repositories of taxpayer dollars that with along with interests on the national debt make up two-thirds of the federal budget.
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Donald Trump has promised a combination of tax cuts, infrastructure spending and the safeguarding of entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare.
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I would argue a president outside of two parties could find more common ground on terrorism, tax reform, education, entitlements, and immigration.
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ARM instructed employees to halt "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements" with Huawei and its subsidiaries, the BBC said.
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WARREN BUFFETT: Well, I would say that I would agree with Charlie on that, in terms of the entitlements and Social Security.
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"There might be common ground on entitlements based on his statements, because we honestly don't have enough detail to know," Mulvaney said.
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I was asked in the Republican Study Committee to put together a plan that increased access, lowered costs, but didn't increase entitlements.
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Local and federal budgets are being stretched to cover pensions and entitlements, putting pressure on government to raise more revenue, he said.
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And while Trump shares Ryan's fears about future deficits and debt, he thus far is opposed to going after the big entitlements.
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"I'd like to interrupt this debate on the floor of the Senate," he said, noting that the question had focused on entitlements.
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Even if Mr Trump abolished all government departments—leaving Washington paying only for entitlements, debt interest and defence—a deficit would remain.
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And I had to tell the truth about entitlements that must be reformed if we are ever to balance the federal budget.
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They would dismiss the policies that Trump championed, insisting voters don't support trade restrictions, mass deportations, a Muslim ban or preserving entitlements.
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But a sensible first step, which a few countries are trying, is to register farmers' entitlements so their land cannot be pinched.
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HOW MUCH OF THOSE ENTITLEMENTS WILL COME DUE AS PEOPLE AGE AND WILL RETIRE AND WILL DRAW ON PUBLIC RESOURCES, NUMBER ONE.
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"It is a very complicated budget process when your entitlements, your mandatory spending is driving most of your budget deficit," he said.
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Paul said conservative lawmakers are concerned congressional leaders are discussing a plan that would include new entitlements that the government cannot afford.
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When Donald Trump vowed to eliminate the national debt in eight years, without cutting entitlements, he was respecting his adopted party's tradition.
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Some of the answers in domestic policy are apparent, such as taxes, Social Security, and health care entitlements including Medicare and Medicaid.
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"Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes," he added.
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Democrats have seized on these comments in their campaigns, arguing Republicans want to cut entitlements while giving tax breaks to the wealthy.
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Heads up for the "Dems have no national message" people: The McConnell comments on entitlements are driving today's state Dem messaging. pic.twitter.
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Citing Democratic opposition to curbing entitlements, McConnell said last week: "I would not expect to see that on the agenda" in 2018.
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You had different things to say on trade, entitlements, foreign policy, even your daughter Ivanka's child care plan was sort of distinctive.
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Ryan's enthusiasm to reform entitlements, something he's pushed to do for many years, was on display in a recent Fox News interview.
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The topics include debt and entitlements, immigration, the economy, the Supreme Court, foreign hot spots and the candidates' fitness to be president.
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He also said it would be "very difficult" to reform entitlements with one party in charge of Congress and the White House.
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Mr. Ryan, who during the same interview called again for the overhaul of entitlements and the reduction of debt, rejected that idea.
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The more the prime minister appears a remote person benefiting from special entitlements, the less likely voters are to follow his lead.
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We have to be willing to confront this as part of a system that treats women's bodies as entitlements for powerful men.
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Topics: Six 200063-minute segments: debt and entitlements; immigration; the economy; the Supreme Court; foreign hot spots; and fitness to be president.
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Among western European countries, the Netherlands has the largest gap between men's and women's pension entitlements, and the largest in monthly income.
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Most mandatory programs — entitlements such as Social Security that are automatically funded rather than subject to congressional appropriations — can continue without disruption.
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The discussion about potential payroll tax reductions comes as Trump has come under fire for saying that he would consider cutting entitlements.
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Repeated calls for cuts Bloomberg often noted correctly that the federal budget was largely allocated to two sources: entitlements and defense spending.
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Unfunded liabilities—meaning the cost of government promises to spend in the future, especially on entitlements, if left untouched — total $75 trillion.
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Yet policymakers on both sides of the aisle have consistently refused to touch the spending and entitlements that primarily drive the debt.
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We have large entitlements that we're obligated to pay people and we probably can't pay them fully, as much as we promised.
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Meanwhile, Donald Trump won the 2016 election, but he also ruined the GOP establishment's plan to cut entitlements without a grand bargain.
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He flouted G.O.P. orthodoxy on entitlements, infrastructure spending and, at times, even health care and "culture war" issues like funding Planned Parenthood.
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I agree that if Ryan had control of … the world … he would pass a balanced budget with low taxes and slashed entitlements.
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There are now two incompatible art worlds: one committed to inclusion, artistic freedom and change, the other driven by money and entitlements.
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"This is a president who said we're not going to touch entitlements and, basically, we don't have a problem," Mr. Sanford said.
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His political calculation could, paradoxically, protect Social Security and Medicare, entitlements that the Republican Party has tried so hard to rein in.
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Mr. Trump won the presidency in part because of some big promises, including a vow to break from conservative orthodoxy on entitlements.
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The goal was no longer to further progress made through self-determination but a pursuit of entitlements with a mentality of victimization.
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"Reforming Social Security and entitlements would help, as they make up the largest parts of the annual budget," says MacDonald with Smith's.
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Shutdowns also have zero effect on entitlements like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, which continue automatically unless Congress explicitly amends them.
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I mean if we do anything with increased revenue, I mean, spending should still probably be cut and we need to address entitlements.
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Given that he has also said he will protect entitlements, questions will be asked about how the administration can finance its ambitious plans.
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Many Republicans blame the shift away from Ryan Republicanism and toward Trumpism, led by a candidate who explicitly promised no changes to entitlements.
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The BBC reported on Wednesday that ARM had instructed employees to halt "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements" with Huawei.
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One problem is that their entitlements vary widely depending on when and where they were demobilised, resulting in disparities that many think unfair.
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CHRISTIE: ... the fact is — the fact is the reason why that no one wants to answer entitlements up here is because it's hard.
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Entitlements including Medicare and Social Security account for 50% of the federal budget and continue to grow as the baby boom generation ages.
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But the hard-right Republicans who scuttled this bill, including most in the Freedom Caucus, don't want to continue the health-care entitlements.
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And he didn't have the leeway, in this budget anyway, to go to where the real budget problem is, which is in entitlements.
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"President Rodrigo Duterte has repeatedly asserted that the Philippines is not giving up its claims and our entitlements over the area," he said.
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There are clearly solutions to our predicament, but the most powerful and obvious – addressing the problem of entitlements – is a political non-starter.
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" Towards the end of the debate, as Clinton was answering a question about entitlements, Trump muttered into his microphone: "Such a nasty woman.
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Rachel Greszler is a senior policy analyst for economics and entitlements for the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
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"We have to address entitlements, otherwise we can't really get a handle on our future debt," he said recently on CBS This Morning.
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The way to stabilize our debt is to improve revenue and make smart reforms to our entitlements that secure their sustainability and effectiveness.
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When you add up all the payments promised by the federal government including the unfunded entitlements, the national debt rises to $87 trillion.
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Such a tax will address the federal government debt and the growth of entitlements, two of the biggest threats to our economic health.
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Entitlements and pension funding are huge issues that no one seems to be addressing right now, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson said Thursday.
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His tax plan, in combination with his refusal to reform entitlements and honestly address spending, would balloon the deficit and the national debt.
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His tax plan in combination with his refusal to reform entitlements and honestly address spending would balloon the deficit and the national debt.
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Arguably, Trump's own rise shows that many Republican voters don't care all that much about ideological purity on issues of spending and entitlements.
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If Trump has departed from conservative orthodoxy on trade and entitlements, he is squarely with the party when it comes to this issue.
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In 2011, he said "changes" would have to be made to entitlements, saying they wouldn't be sustainable -- but he didn't specify what changes.
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Overall, the claim leaves out that Biden was typically talking about any changes to entitlements in the context of a broader legislative package.
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His appointment can certainly be interpreted as signaling that Trump will in fact cooperate with House Speaker Paul Ryan's agenda of overhauling entitlements.
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The entitlements that infuriate us most, it seems, involve the sight of other people chasing determinedly after things we'd never dare to pursue.
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If the Republicans are so worried about the cost of entitlements, they should have also worried about the cost of our debt service.
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Spending priorities such as education, infrastructure, and high-value research and development are underfunded, while our commitments to entitlements continue to rise indefinitely.
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How are Republicans going to reform entitlements if they won't even push cuts to wasteful liberal programs that GOP voters don't care about?
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This spending is primarily a function of the cost of the entitlements that support healthcare, especially for the baby boomers as they age.
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By 2027 these two entitlements alone would represent more than half of government spending under the president's plan, according to White House tables.
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He will receive his contracted and statutory entitlements but has forfeited rights to about NZ$6.4 million ($4.2 million) in equity, Key said.
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That's because nursing homes and other institutional settings are treated as entitlements in state Medicaid programs; anyone who qualifies must get in, somewhere.
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This is a time when teachers and parents help students prepare for life when school is over, and all the entitlements programs abruptly end.
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How much consensus there'll be is still an open question, as Trump and Ryan disagree sharply on major issues like trade, entitlements and immigration.
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Local authorities with outsourced rubbish collections, for example, have been protected against the recent increased costs arising from new holiday-pay and pension entitlements.
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Spending on entitlements increased to 40 percent in 2013 from 34 percent in 1995 as a share of total state spending, the report said.
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"I'd like to interrupt this debate on the floor of the Senate," he said, pointing out that the original question had been about entitlements.
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But that comment is less interesting than the answer that he was interrupting — a discussion of how the country should deal with costly entitlements.
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STRASSEL: You have made a lot of promises and you have also — you're the only candidate who has said he would not touch entitlements.
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Entitlements are unlimited reimbursements to states that expand to cover anyone eligible for help during times of need, such as a recession or disaster.
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It is not clear whether Trump is as willing to go as far as Capitol Hill Republicans on reforming entitlements like Medicare for instance.
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Conservatives want to spend more money on defense and slash funds for domestic programs and entitlements, but moderates are eager to preserve such programs.
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After all, how does a president who ran on a vow not to touch entitlements nominate Tom Price to lead Health and Human Services?
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During the demo weekend, we identified a bug where VIP players with a specific combination of entitlements were being blocked from accessing the demo.
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Trump's presidency gives Democrats an opening to establish core policies on a number of key issues, like health care, tax reform, trade, and entitlements.
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Entitlements are not based on race but were pre-paid in treaties that ceded hundreds of millions of acres of land to the government.
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Sadly, there isn't enough money to do all that the president would like to do, while simultaneously maintaining entitlements, repairing infrastructure and cutting taxes.
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But reforming Medicare and Social Security (which, by the technical policy definition, are entitlements because enrollees are legally entitled to their benefits) is hard.
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I still support entitlements, loathe mass incarceration, advocate for L.G.B.T.Q. rights, and believe in the government's power to improve lives and create sweeping change.
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Instead of redistributing wealth, it would more fairly distribute the government obligation for entitlements and revamp America into an economically viable Social Security system.
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And, given his administration's approach to entitlements, the president will not be able to credibly make the same case for Medicare and Social Security.
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There is no excuse for more inaction by Congress, and especially by Republicans, on reforming entitlements and getting mandatory spending on a sustainable path.
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Both have the potential to be effective advocates for working people, for protecting entitlements, and for addressing health care needs from access to addiction.
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And he bragged about crossing conservatives to protect entitlements: But in office, President Trump has been submissive to the congressional GOP's health care agenda.
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"If someone wants to get serious about debt, come talk to me about entitlements," he explains, pointing toward the Social Security and Medicare behemoths.
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And let's not forget that, despite knowing that entitlements are barreling toward insolvency, Congress has failed to act to reform those programs for decades.
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In 2011, Belgium-based Ryanair flight attendants on Irish contracts sued for the right to claim Belgian pay and entitlements in the nation's courts.
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Topics chosen by moderator Chris Wallace include debt and entitlements, immigration, the economy, the Supreme Court, foreign hot spots, and fitness to be president.
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As a father and husband, I slipped into the antiquated role of provider, protector, patriarch — assuming the position and entitlements of another male archetype.
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And even if Republicans do not pursue changes to entitlements, the tax bill will trigger pay-as-you-go requirements that Congress cut spending.
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Sanders and his aides have signaled in recent days that they see Biden's record on Social Security and other entitlements as a weak point.
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Unlike at other airlines, most of Delta's employees are not represented by collective bargaining agreements, and consequently do not have minimum work-hour entitlements.
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In 2015 and '16, Trump differentiated himself from the rest of the Republican presidential hopefuls by campaigning on a vow to not cut entitlements.
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An emboldened Congress, dominated by the right, might start aggressively pursuing conservatives' quest to roll back entitlements like Medicare, something the president campaigned against.
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And you also have the fact that eventually, in my lifetime, in your lifetime, we're going to have to deal with the entitlements issue.
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Among those who opposed King Abdullah in paring back privileges and entitlements, according to diplomatic cables, were Prince Salman and his brother Prince Nayef.
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Work requirements in Medicaid are not about money or health as much as they are about entitlements, personal responsibility, and the meaning of freedom.
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Immigration and security have also colored ads in the Arizona race, and entitlements, taxes, and term limits have been points of emphasis in Florida.
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But the omnibus is so discouraging because cutting low-value discretionary programs should be an easy reform step before the bigger challenge of entitlements.
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On the issue of severance packages and benefits, Labour Minister Chris Ngige said workers will be entitled to all their entitlements, salaries and allowances.
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Kudlow said the administration was "still chipping away" to reduce the "burdens and inefficiencies of entitlements," including certain pillars of the Affordable Care Act.
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AND THE DATA ARE UNEQUIVOCAL ON THIS THAT SUM OF THE TWO ARE FLAT, MEANING THE ENTITLEMENTS ARE CROWDING OUT THE GROSS DOMESTIC SAVINGS.
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In December, he promised to tackle "health-care entitlements" such as Medicare and Medicaid, which rank among the biggest drivers of the federal debt.
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"I think the middle class has a lot of entitlements, and they're expensive," Strain said in a recent interview, discussing the GOP health plan.
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If Trump was serious about his pledge not to cut entitlements, it's hard to understand why he would have picked Price for this job.
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In 2010, the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission recommended slashing entitlements and increasing taxes, but its proposals to cut the national debt fell short of adoption.
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"There might be common ground on entitlements based on his statements, because we honestly don't have enough detail to know," Mulvaney said at the time.
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But the ascension of Trump posed challenges for Ryan, who disagrees with the nominee on both policy -- including trade, entitlements and government spending -- and style.
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The party would table old arguments over shrinking government and reforming entitlements, urging robust government intervention instead to help workers left behind by economic changes.
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Australia already had an elaborate system for trading water rights, allowing farmers to buy or sell entitlements according to their need in any given season.
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And it's really hard to achieve major libertarian priorities like cutting entitlements when a really large percentage of voters want to do the very opposite.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: His tax plan in combination with his refusal to reform entitlements and honestly address spending would balloon the deficit and the national debt.
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MORE's Affordable Care Act, which put policies into place that forced or incentivized states to pay for additional entitlements for a larger number of people.
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Real change in the direction of the federal spending trajectory — which is straight up — will only come through reforming the driver of this growth: Entitlements.
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But how well you understand the ins and outs of these entitlements could make a big difference in how much you receive over your lifetime.
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Bernie Sanders responded to Ryan's comments critically on Twitter, arguing that the Republican Party planned to pay for its tax bill with cuts to entitlements.
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Trump won by deviating from orthodoxy, promising to protect entitlements like Medicare and Social Security while spewing racist paranoia about illegal immigration and urban crime.
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His opposition to taxing the wealth, support for cutting entitlements, and belief that plutocrats can solve the country's pressing problems make him the perfect villain.
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Separate from this quadrennial review, Congress could still make budgetary changes in entitlements or revenues, and agencies could make decisions with long-term budgetary implications.
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The public prominence of a long-term entitlements and revenue budget would exert a dose of political pressure on Congress to stick with the process.
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However it also clinched votes from hundreds of Ten employees, creditors since they are owed pension and leave entitlements, to win the vote by number.
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"I'd like to interrupt this debate on the floor of the Senate to actually answer the question you asked, which was on entitlements," Christie said.
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Presumably, his plan is to mobilize "real" Democrats with the tried-and-true leftist strategy of offering them more and more soul-destroying government entitlements.
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The debate will cover debt and entitlements, immigration, the economy, the Supreme Court, foreign hot spots, and "fitness to be president" — topics selected by Wallace.
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I'll have to yield on 'Read My Lips,' and they're going to have to yield on some of their rhetoric on taxes and on entitlements.
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Mr. Ryan said at a town hall-style meeting last month that Congress had to spur growth and cut entitlements to reduce the national debt.
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Brian FitzpatrickBrian K. FitzpatrickDCCC to run ads tying 28500 House Republicans to Trump remarks on entitlements House revives agenda after impeachment storm Former Pennsylvania Rep.
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Debt service will be the third largest cost in the federal budget by 28503, the second by 22019, and the largest — surpassing entitlements — by 2050.
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According to Bagley, the payments represent an entitlement, and the courts have been clear that the government needs to pay entitlements, or be in default.
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In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Sanders attacked Biden's record on foreign policy, trade and entitlements and questioned Biden's electability in key Midwestern states.
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They pointed out that Washington is not even focused on entitlements, like Social Security and Medicare, which are the fastest growing part of the budget.
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Republicans and libertarians cavalierly rail against entitlements and "people living off the public's dime" but remain silent on those profiting from people's misfortune and illness.
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LBJ blew open federal spending on his Great Society programs which morphed into what we now call "entitlements" by creating Medicare and expanding Social Security.
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In Britain, maternity wage and job entitlements led fewer women to hold management positions and promotion-track jobs, according to research by economist Jenna Stearns.
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And as with his past breaks with GOP orthodoxy on issues like entitlements and trade, he seems largely unconcerned by the opprobrium of Republican elites.
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"His tax plan in combination with his refusal to reform entitlements and honestly address spending would balloon the deficit and the national debt," said Romney.
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"We have to go after entitlements," he has said, referring to the unpopular idea of cutting Social Security and Medicare to shrink the federal deficit.
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Trump pledged not to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid a mere four years after Republicans embraced Paul Ryan's overhaul of Medicare and other entitlements.
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As that exchange dove into the weeds, Christie charged in to remind both candidates that they were supposed to be responding to a question about entitlements.
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What other word can you use to describe a plan that keeps most of Obamacare's entitlements but strips away a lot of the funding for them?
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The President-elect has also pledged not to reform America's entitlements system of Social Security (pensions and income support) and Medicare (health care for the elderly).
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They pushed for lower and lower taxes for "job creators," for more global trade trade, more immigration, and for less public spending, including cuts to entitlements.
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Risk-based security is built on a multi-layered approach and identity and entitlements around that identity are a new and important layer to that approach.
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Mr. Cameron also won the right to restrict, for four years, welfare entitlements for citizens from other European Union countries who come to Britain to work.
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He cites an unsustainable environment of aging demographics, increasing entitlements, huge budget deficits, ballooning debt, and bank weakness as causes for a perpetual quantitative easing program.
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As for other entitlements, Clinton briefly mentioned Medicare in the second debate as an effective single payer system as she talked about the Affordable Care Act.
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And if he goes all the way, Sanders will move the country as a whole further to the left, starting with entitlements, wages and wealth distribution.
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Like opposition to abortion, support for a balanced budget has long since become Republican cant, mouthed (unconvincingly) even by big government entitlements-defenders like Donald Trump.
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The picture is more ominous the long-term, as entitlements and interest on the national debt drown the United States in a sea of red ink.
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However, the insurgency did not prove strong enough to enact its agenda — slashing government debt and spending on entitlements, and reducing regulatory burdens on small businesses.
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Technically, shareholders do not own a company: the firm is a legal person and a share represents a bundle of entitlements to dividends and voting powers.
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And Blankfein, yet again, responded, saying that supporting "slowing expansion of entitlements in a dismal economy" didn't mean he wanted to get rid of programs altogether.
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As the population ages and health-care costs continue to rise, the fiscal demands on entitlements like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are projected to grow.
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About 28500-6900 percent of federal spending is effectively on autopilot through entitlements or long-term contracts; this spending is authorized no matter what Congress does.
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"The sensitivity of entitlements is such that you almost have to have a bipartisan agreement in order to achieve a result," McConnell told reporters last week.
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Many of these indirect programs, like entitlements and tax breaks for health care, retirement and housing, are not counted as part of the conventional federal budget.
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But while keeping entitlements "off the table" is a great slogan, I can't help but wonder why Congress can't ensure we spend entitlement money more wisely.
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Advisers to the Kochs, finding that Mr. Romney had increased the party's share of elderly voters, concluded that proposals to overhaul entitlements were not hurting Republicans.
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Why not use the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements System list, and compare the names on it to the Kansas voter rolls?
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The question about whether Trump intends to cut entitlements isn't really up for debate — he's already proposed cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security disability programs.
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They've promoted an inward focus on entitlements for vets, instead of an outward focus that would help vets bring their talents to bear in civilian society.
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As a reminder, any such leave will run concurrently with an employee's leave entitlements under applicable law, potentially including FMLA leave or state/local sick leave.
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He also cited income inequality, lack of social mobility and concerns about whether entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security will be there for future generations.
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So at what point you'll have to say the entitlements, which are 75% of the federal budget, if not 80%, they will have to be adjusted.
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This is why deficits should matter: They eat up future revenue that we desperately need as the costs of already promised entitlements continue to spiral upward.
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Trump talking more about entitlements President Trump's recent rallies have included a new rallying cry: I'm the one who will save your Social Security and Medicare.
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"When compared to the much smaller Telent the transfer to Rothesay Life will substantially improve the security of members' pension entitlements," Telent said in a statement.
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His presidency was then largely consumed by the massive and costly post-19613/11 war on terror, leaving concerns about climate, entitlements and infrastructure spending aside.
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As the population ages and health-care costs continue to rise, the fiscal demands on entitlements like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are projected to grow.
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That could mean a lot of things, but Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are all at risk when so-called entitlements are on the cutting board.
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And conservative Republicans, the 35 or so members of the Freedom Caucus, have said they won't vote for a bill they feel doesn't cut entitlements enough.
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Despite high poverty rates and joblessness, the territories receive just a fraction of the federal funding allocated to U.S. states for entitlements such as Medicare and Medicaid.
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Germany rejects such criticism, saying it has already increased domestic demand by introducing a national minimum wage in 2015 and agreeing to raise pension entitlements in 2016.
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"I was asked to put together a plan that increased access [and] lowered costs but didn't increase entitlements, so my hands were a bit tied," he says.
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Aging demographics, increasing entitlements, massive budget deficits and burgeoning amounts of debt will force the Federal Reserve and other central banks to keep printing presses running hot.
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An internal memo from ARM lays out the chip giant's decision to hit pause on "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements," per the BBC.
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"I assume any efforts to reform entitlements will go by the wayside" if Trump is president, John Feehery, a Republican strategist and former House GOP aide, said.
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The German government introduced a national minimum wage in 2015 and decided to raise pension entitlements in 2016 by the strongest rate in more than two decades.
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The upshot is a plan that is costly and regressive, yet paired with other commitments around entitlements, military spending, and constitutional amendments that make it completely impossible.
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Such policies are a feature of autocracies; where the entitlements of the people include real political power, as they do in functioning democracies, they are normally untenable.
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The government has social welfare programs to support people living with disabilities, but campaigners say they remain largely unimplemented and few disabled people know of their entitlements.
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While Ryan is chomping at the bit to tackle welfare and entitlements, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has expressed a clear interest in doing bipartisan work this year.
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And the rest of it could come out of food stamps and the entitlements that are being spread out for people who haven't worked in three generations.
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Greenspan told CNBC on Thursday that the best way to pay for cutting taxes is to reduce spending on ballooning entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare.
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He said GE had made commitments to pay ARCO, which the union said was a maintenance subcontractor that had failed to pay salaries, allowances and other entitlements.
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In recent years austerity-minded governments have been more willing to gut means-tested welfare payments than to take an axe to entitlements such as universal pensions.
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He was going to respect entitlements and pour hundreds of billions into infrastructure, thereby winning the Republican Party the loyalty of the working class of all races.
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Trump also sought to contrast himself with other Republican presidential candidates, several of whom are Republican members of Congress who had backed budgets making changes to entitlements.
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They also need, as we had in the 85033s, a message on the federal budget and entitlements to demonstrate some degree of fiscal prudence and social compassion.
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Buerkl pointed to the decision by the government to raise pension entitlements by more than four percent in the West and nearly six percent in the East.
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We recommend creating a statutory long-term budget for major entitlements—and the revenues to finance these programs—as a central part of the federal budget process.
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"We're not going to get into a bidding war with the left about how much we can mandate or put entitlements out there for people," Ryan said.
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Mick Mulvaney, the conservative Republican nominated to run Trump's OMB, being confronted over Trump's promise to balance the budget while cutting taxes and refusing to cut entitlements.
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They spoke bitterly of returning home from the war and, in a poor country, struggling with unemployment while being asked for bribes for entitlements like medical treatment.
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What's next: Republicans say they are looking as soon as next year to overhaul entitlements like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security with the aim of limiting spending.
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Maybe the media could ask a few of the "self-identified socialists" running for office how they plan to pay for all the "free entitlements" they propose.
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As recently as November, the President asserted at a campaign rally that Democratic policies were putting health care entitlements at risk, promising that Republicans would "safeguard" Medicare.
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And while Trump has talked about preserving entitlements and safety net programs, his previous budget proposals have signaled that the Trump administration has been open to cuts.
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Rather than raising taxes and cutting entitlements, their idea, outlined in multiple budget documents written by Paul Ryan, was to cut taxes as well as entitlement spending.
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Military disability ratings of 30 percent or more trigger medical retirement and associated entitlements, whereas ratings below that threshold qualify only for a one-time severance payment.
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And while the President's 2021 plan does not eliminate the deficit in 20083 years, it does reduce it by slashing entitlements and other non-discretionary domestic spending.
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Many say that our problem is entitlements, as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are the majority of spending, while the rest goes toward defense and interest payments.
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In the past, that allowed for great compromises on tax, immigration, trade, or entitlements, as well as bipartisan support for our military, intelligence community, and national security.
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Most ideas in the playbook— covering areas including taxes, entitlements, infrastructure, energy, regulation, and education — generated between 60 percent and 80 percent support in our nationwide polls.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D).
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A baseline that assumed programs, entitlements or otherwise, will actually stop spending money when their legal authorization runs out or their current funding sources change denies reality.
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Asked Monday if the Trump administration would address "entitlement reform," White House chief economic advisor Larry Kudlow said it will "probably" look at "larger entitlements" next year.
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Pressed on rising deficits, Ryan emphasized the need to reform entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid, even though he acknowledged that incremental action is a more realistic path.
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They had set up a broad alliance of donors and advocacy organizations to support conservative candidates who share their "pro-business" opposition to regulation, entitlements, and taxes.
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The Republicans intend to use that swelling deficit to justify undoing the entitlements of the New Deal and the Great Society, leaving the American safety net skimpier.
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In a press conference on Monday, Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said Baghdad had violated the Iraqi constitution by drafting a budget that does not recognize Kurdish entitlements.
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"Instead of converting voters to conservatism, Trump is succeeding at converting conservatives to statism on everything from health care and entitlements to trade," complained National Review's Jonah Goldberg.
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They were attracted to his promises to expand big government "protections" and entitlements similar to the promises of greater riches the pro-stay campaigners have made in Britain.
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BBC News reports that ARM employees have been instructed to halt "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements" with Huawei due to the US trade ban.
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The company said on Friday it had made changes to the 2012 plan's entitlements for chief executive Jeff Fairburn, finance chief Mike Killoran and managing director Dave Jenkinson.
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Democrats who want to fight Trump on economic issues may find him a squirrelly target, happy to distance himself from his party's orthodoxy, especially on trade and entitlements.
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His positions on cutting entitlements in order to reduce the deficit and not legalizing the sale of marijuana are among those that could make him unpopular with liberals.
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That schism has been reflected in his Cabinet, with Trump nominees differing with their boss on issues like the importance of NATO and the need to reform entitlements.
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It will offer ideas on an alternative to Obamacare, and how to fix the economy, reform entitlements, craft foreign policy and reclaim government by consent not executive order.
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In fact, like Medicare and Medicaid, the GOP plan sets up another set of entitlements the government will not be able to afford in the relative short run.
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The idea that they, or any other Congress operating similarly in the future, might tackle entitlements in general, much less the cost control problems facing Medicare, is farcical.
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All the while, Bush kept a heavy commitment to rolling out policy plans nearly every week on a range of issues -- from entitlements to managing western public lands.
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The Philippines would take necessary action to defend and protect the country's sovereignty and entitlements in the disputed maritime borders, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said in a statement.
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The topics selected by Wallace, divided into six 15-minute segments, were: immigration, debt and entitlements, Supreme Court, the economy, foreign hot spots, and fitness to be president.
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Eliminating the federal debt without touching entitlements, as Trump has promised, would be impossible, said Bowles, the Democratic co-chair of President Barack Obama's 2010 bipartisan debt commission.
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Donald Trump is trickier, given elite conservative media's (and Fox News's) disdain for his views on health care, foreign policy, and entitlements and his past views on abortion.
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The court referenced the emerging practice of comparing statewide voter lists to other official databases like drivers license customers and the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.).
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"The sensitivity of entitlements is such that you almost have to have a bipartisan agreement in order to achieve a result," McConnell said at a press conference Friday.
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Discretionary government spending, which includes basic research and infrastructure, has declined dramatically relative to mandatory spending, which is dominated by entitlements such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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The review, due to be published on Tuesday, will recommend that ministers create a new type of worker called a "dependent contractor", the BBC said, granting greater entitlements.
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When McConnell said in interviews earlier this month that entitlements "are the real drivers of debt," Democrats pounced, crafting another talking point just weeks ahead of the election.
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Party leaders urged Democrats to hinge on this messaging in their campaigns and warn voters that Republicans would cut entitlements should they keep both houses in the midterms.
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Reforming, not cutting, these programs is the way to make sure that people relying on entitlements don't lose coverage because the federal government has run out of cash.
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A new conservative bloc on the Supreme Court though may soon treat them as something else: outdated "racial entitlements" that need to be put back in their place.
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Rather, we recommend a procedure whereby Congress would debate and enact a 25-year spending plan for the major entitlements with a clear plan to cover their cost.
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Mr. Trump's approaches to health care, trade, immigration and entitlements all represent attempts to address their yearning for security at a time of economic dislocation and cultural change.
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Uber says its drivers enjoy the flexibility of their work and are self-employed, entitling them in British law to only basic entitlements such as health and safety.
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The president talks tough on the deficit, but early signs point to his pushing higher deficits to make good on his promise to cut taxes and protect entitlements.
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These protections and benefits have not always been realized in rural India, but they include school scholarships, land entitlements and housing for families living below the poverty line.
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Sanders has also criticized the former vice president's comments about freezing social security and other entitlements in the hopes of chipping into Biden's support among working-class voters.
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Most federal spending is nondiscretionary, meaning that it goes to entitlements (such as Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance) and to pay the interest on the national debt.
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"Property deeds, birth certificates, and personal papers, as well as records documenting rights and entitlements, such as Social Security and veterans' benefits" were damaged on a massive scale.
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The $5,712 average premium on the exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act greatly exceeds the $2023 median health care costs borne by Americans uncovered by public entitlements.
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In 2016, means-tested entitlements like Medicaid and food stamps absorbed 3.8 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, almost a full percentage point more than in 2008.
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Most Republicans strongly want to keep those tax cuts — the only significant achievement of three years of party rule — and have little interest in tackling politically popular entitlements.
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The group has viewed the willingness to cut entitlements as a practical test of conservatism; Mr. Trump vowed not to touch Social Security or Medicare during his campaign.
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A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge is an angry, miserly money lender who feels that his employees should never have a day off and that workhouses are wasteful entitlements.
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They're as much like Trump as anything else, and Trump's complete ease with the welfare state and with entitlements is completely of a kind with the European right.
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In the intervening years, however, Republicans — in their headlong race to win over wealthy donors with promises to slash government spending by cutting "entitlements" — have forgotten this wisdom.
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And the rest of it could come out of food stamps and the entitlements that are being spread out for people who have not worked in three generations.
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Y.), Don Bacon (Neb.), Jaime Herrera BeutlerJaime Lynn Herrera BeutlerDCCC unveils initial dozen candidates for 'Red to Blue' program DCCC to run ads tying 11 House Republicans to Trump remarks on entitlements Democrats launch bilingual ad campaign off drug pricing bill MORE (Wash.), Steve ChabotSteven (Steve) Joseph ChabotHouse GOP introduces bill to secure voter registration systems against foreign hacking DCCC to run ads tying 11 House Republicans to Trump remarks on entitlements Koch network could target almost 200 races in 2020, official says MORE (Ohio), Ross SpanoVincent (Ross) Ross SpanoDCCC to run ads tying 11 House Republicans to Trump remarks on entitlements Lawmakers honor JFK on 85033th anniversary of his death GOP Rep.
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"The People's Money" argues strongly that the political class operates under and promotes the false notion that the American people don't really want budget cuts or changes to entitlements.
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He's been especially critical of efforts to overhaul entitlements like Medicare and Social Security while Ryan has made reining in long-term spending on the programs a central priority.
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So many generations have joined in celebrating "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" as basic human entitlements, whatever the myriad interpretations they have put on those exhilarating words.
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Without one emerging faction as the winner, the agenda on trade, immigration, old-age entitlements and the role of the U.S. in a globalized world would grow even murkier.
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But that kind of racism gets exacerbated when people feel that they're falling behind and it looks like they're losing things that have been promised to them as entitlements.
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I get my health insurance…Read more ReadRegardless, it's likely that health insurance programs, like Medicaid and Medicare, will cease to be entitlements, and be replaced by Medicare vouchers.
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The Donald Trump supporter and co-founder of Home Depot told CNBC's "Closing Bell " one major problem is entitlements, which he said encompasses 71 percent of the federal budget.
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But he also represents a complete unknown in his dealings with foreign leaders and has often taken conflicting positions on a range of issues from entitlements to trade policy.
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I mean they both support the military industrial complex, the federal reserve, deficits and entitlements, and and an invasion of our privacy," Paul told CNN's Carol Costello on "Newsroom.
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He came under relentless pressure from the Fox News moderators over his claims that he can balance the budget while cutting taxes by massive amounts and not cutting entitlements.
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Both parties have promised federal benefits, notably for the old, that are not "mathematically possible"—but called them "entitlements" so that voters imagine that they have paid for them.
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You could easily imagine Ryan and Clinton cutting major deals on immigration, entitlements, trade, EITC expansion, and infrastructure — which, put together, adds up to a pretty impressive shared agenda.
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"Frankly, it's the health care entitlements that are the big drivers of our debt," he said -- just days after happily adding a trillion to the tab with tax cuts.
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President Trump could use that authority to greatly expand the role of HSAs in the exchanges and in entitlements, limited only by changes in budget such revision might entail.
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Neighboring Malaysia runs a controversial affirmative action policy under which ethnic Malays and other indigenous populations enjoy entitlements such as quotas in universities and companies and cheaper property rates.
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Whatever the merits of these stereotypes on issues like taxes and entitlements, the House Republicans PROSPER Act shows that at least on higher education, the exact opposite is true.
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To Democrats, the political logic of a VAT may become irresistible because the huge revenues could fund new social programs while shoring up the financing of existing bloated entitlements.
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A major topic at tonight's presidential debate — maybe the first topic — will be "debt and entitlements," according to Chris Wallace, the Fox News host who is moderating the debate.
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"The payments extend over a very long period of time because they also include pension entitlements," Hammond, who met German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz this week, told the FAZ.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.).
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But to advance as a multicultural society, we must focus not on the entitlements or responsibilities of migrants alone but on the collective task of building an inclusive society.
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With the advent of the tea party movement, voters were electing people to Congress to cut rather than spend, while unrealistically expecting their entitlements and benefits wouldn't be touched.
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His platform hits a lot of Pennsylvania's biggest issues: jobs, protecting entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, organized labor, and helping end the heroin crisis currently ravaging the state.
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The move to dismantle funding for public programs was coupled with personal responsibility narratives over providing the government "entitlements" initiated by Democrats like Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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All those affected by the move, including senior management, will be given two weeks of paid "pandemic leave", the casino operator said, without elaborating on what such entitlements entailed.
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Moreover, demands for massive new entitlements that would cost trillions of dollars is a recipe for disaster, especially as the left continues to encourage both legal and illegal immigration.
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At least one name, Paul Mango, emerged as a potential replacement for Verma atop the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the major health entitlements and Obamacare.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump signaled this week that he's open to cutting federal entitlements to reduce the federal deficit, despite previously campaigning on protecting Medicare and Social Security.
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Separately, Democrats have questioned whether the GOP tax bill could lead to pressure to cut entitlements and other spending programs if the tax bill adds greatly to U.S. deficits.
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The two parties must make changes to federal entitlements, raise taxes, and re-adjust spending levels for defense and nondefense programs, the former secretary said, ignoring the obvious hurdles.
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By updating our antiquated tax code, the Senate bill will get the economy moving again — an absolute necessity if lawmakers want to address our national debt and entitlements cliff.
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Worse, Republicans now aim to take advantage of the instability they've created by cutting so-called entitlements like Medicare down the line, burdening the poor and the middle class.
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And he bragged about crossing conservatives to protect entitlements: I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.
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Uber currently classifies its around 50,000 drivers in Britain as self-employed, affording them only basic entitlements, whilst employees also receive rights such as sick pay and the minimum wage.
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India began collecting biometric data for the system back in 2009 and many subsidies and entitlements, like pensions for the disabled and elderly, are credited to Aadhaar-linked bank accounts.
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The firm instructed employees to halt "all active contacts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements" with the Chinese telecommunications, the BBC reported, in order to comply with U.S. trade restrictions.
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In addition to backing a $1.5 trillion tax cut without offsetting reductions in spending, Mr. Trump has pushed for increased military spending and has opposed any serious reforms to entitlements.
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The European Union is the economic equivalent of a "legacy system": locked in the past, overburdened by entitlements and regulations, terrified of the creative destruction at the heart of capitalism.
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"As a general rule, when governments take away entitlements under mining and petroleum legislation, then there's not a right to compensation," said Jeff Lynn, a partner at law firm Ashurst.
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"That's pretty fundamental to the Republican worldview that there shouldn't be open-ended entitlements and that federal spending should be capped," Larry Levitt at the Kaiser Family Foundation told me.
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Then there is Trump himself, who has adopted populist policies including expanding infrastructure spending and preserving entitlements, and Paul Ryan, who is an extreme advocate of fiscal conservatism and privatization.
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Entitlements were calculated by an array of special regulations that varied not only among the numerous different funds but also among workers belonging to distinct groups within the same fund.
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Trump plans to boost military spending by $54 billion while remaining committed to maintaining entitlements like Social Security and Medicare and cutting taxes and doing some kind of infrastructure deal.
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The preferred vehicle to achieve a smaller deficit was through spending restraints or cuts — particularly for federal entitlements — rather than through revenue enhancement (either higher or new taxes and fees).
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"We anticipate the process to be completed by mid-August and as soon as possible after that we will (conduct) distribution of entitlements (to creditors) by 24 August," Clark added.
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Entitlements should not be considered untouchable and while it's important to be a compassionate society, we must have constraints — otherwise, we'll see uncontrollable expansion our already-ballooning debt cannot sustain.
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He is, if possible, more serious than they are about cracking down on entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare, and shares none of President Trump's reverence for those programs.
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If a basic income were ever implemented, it seems likely that some existing entitlements would be preserved (good luck to the politician who decides to renege on promises to pensioners).
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Brooklynite fight, with Blankfein making some weird jokes about how they're both "two self-made millionaires from Brooklyn," while Sanders criticized Goldman's financial crisis bailout and Blankfein's stance on entitlements.
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The limits of UNCLOS mean the judges cannot rule on sovereignty, but instead on the entitlements from certain features and the rights of the Philippines within its own economic zone.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.) said.
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Among the many possible approaches to this issue could be a separate dedicated tax to directly fund all economic security payments that would effectively depoliticize the broad spectrum of entitlements.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.), an appropriator.
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In 2006, the US retail giant Walmart had to pull out of Germany because it failed to recognize regulations around labor groups, working on Sundays, holiday entitlements, and sick leave.
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Do they believe we need to expand safety nets to catch those being left behind by this age of accelerating change but also control entitlements so they will be sustainable?
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If these women placed truly equal value on both ourselves and also the males in our society, we would not want entitlements or preferential treatment on the basis of gender.
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But Rubio's halfhearted reform conservatism was outbid and overwhelmed by Trump's brassy promises to renegotiate trade deals, slap on tariffs, leave entitlements untouched and bring back the jobs of 1965.
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The authors believed that the budget process would be a bipartisan effort to impose order on the passage of appropriations, the handling of entitlements, and the enactment of tax policies.
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Many people do not even know the difference between Medicaid and Medicare and simply consider them "entitlement programs," as if tax breaks and corporate subsidies aren't entitlements by another name.
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But Johnson also shared conspiracy theories about Obama's citizenship, an off-color joke about Obama dying in a plane crash and a clipping that compared people on entitlements to animals.
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Pro-life does not mean anti-woman; pro-border security does not mean anti-immigrant; reforming entitlements does not mean anti-senior; and being pro-police does not mean racist.
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It defines who we are, determines our social status, mediates our sense of self-worth, shapes our political affiliations and determines our entitlements to a slice of the economic pie.
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However, Swagel warned, "If we wait longer, then the changes that are needed are more difficult" because spending on entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security needs to be curtailed.
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While they share Mr. Trump's twin goals of balancing the budget and slashing taxes, they would prefer to square the circle by cutting the entitlements of Social Security and Medicare.
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The 90-minute face off (no breaks) will cover debt and entitlements, immigration, the economy, the Supreme Court, foreign hot spots, and "fitness to be president" — topics selected by Wallace.
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Maybe if they had more of a free-market approach to some of these grand entitlements that have a little bit more extra cash floating around to invest in their military.
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In September last year, a British employment tribunal decided that several drivers were not self-employed, which gives them few entitlements in law, with the decision then appealed by Addison Lee.
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The economy "is going to begin to fade out because Europe is not doing well and we still have a problem where there's a very substantial fiscal problem associated with entitlements."
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In the election campaign he has offered an uncompromising message to newcomers: welfare entitlements are to be cut to push them into work; those not striving to integrate will be penalised.
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Ryanair claims that, with the new round of cancellations, its pilots will have used up their outstanding leave entitlements and the airline will be able to return to business as usual.
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An index compiled by Aither, a consultancy, tracks a weighted price for these entitlements in the Murray-Darling basin, and showed a 96.1% rise in the ten years from July 2008.
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The voluminous budget document will include economic forecasts and Trump's views on "mandatory entitlements" — big-ticket programs like Social Security and Medicare, which Trump vowed to protect on the campaign trail.
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In order to keep their donors happy, GOP leaders have embraced broadly unpopular economic policies, including cuts to "entitlements" that most Republicans view as benefits they have earned and therefore deserve.
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The proposal doesn't cite DVR content specifically — traditionally a sticking point when it comes to cable-box alternatives — but an FCC spokesperson told Mashable DVRs are covered by the "entitlements" provision.
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I will tell you as a trustee of the Social Security Trust Fund, this is something that Congress may look at, OK, but the president does not want to change entitlements.
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Speaker Salim al-Jabouri said the budget addressed Kurdish concerns and that the federal government would pay the salaries of Kurdish civil servants and Peshmerga fighters, as well as welfare entitlements.
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GREENSPAN: THE SIMPLEST WAY TO GET TAX CUTS IS TO CUT SPENDING AND THE MAJOR AREA WHERE WE HAVE TO CUT IT, OR AT LEAST SLOW IT DOWN DRAMATICALLY, IS ENTITLEMENTS.
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Most Democrats do not want to touch entitlements, preferring to stick to the status quo or even to expand benefits to make them more generous to beneficiaries (and costly for taxpayers).
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But with the numbers becoming more daunting, GOP leaders have to decide how aggressively to pursue major changes to entitlements as they seek to win back the White House in 2628.
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Y.) and John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.).
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Since then, a new generational land cartel has emerged with Californian Baby Boomers protecting entitlements and higher property values for themselves in the form of land-use restrictions and Proposition 20083.
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For those women who are afforded rights, work-related factors like scant finances, travel distances and prohibitively long shifts often mean they are unable to access healthcare, making their entitlements redundant.
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While our leaders fiddle, entitlements drive up our debt — growing interest payments on which will soon infect the rest of the budget and reduce every federal program to an empty shell.
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But in advance of the report's release, Britain's biggest union Unite said it was up to businesses to enforce workers' rights and the government needed to make sure entitlements were upheld.
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"With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my Social Security program," boasted Roosevelt, anticipating the dynamics that would make elderly entitlements a third rail in American politics.
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These were closely linked, because everyone understood that workers who lose health care, housing or even food if they lose their jobs are much more vulnerable than those with basic entitlements.
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Anyone working from home will receive regular pay for the time spent working remotely and aren't required to use paid time off, paid sick time or other leave entitlements, WeWork said.
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Now, I know mums outside the U.K have different maternity leave entitlements so it makes it near on impossible to do what we did if you live in America for example.
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Monica Crowley defends cuts to entitlements in Trump's new 2021 budget proposal: "The president also understands that Washington's habit of out of control spending without consequence has to be stopped." pic.twitter.
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The party that smashed the trade unions in the 1980s now promises to protect employee entitlements, such as the right to take time off work to look after a sick relative.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (Ill.), the subpanel's top Democrat.
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In addition, programs like Medicaid would be transformed from entitlements (which just means that every qualified American would receive assistance) to block grants or per capita cap programs, leaving millions unaided.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D-Conn.).
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Insofar as Trump has fixed political positions, he disagrees with a majority of House Republicans, including Ryan and Cole, on foreign policy, taxes, entitlements, trade policy, immigration, and the minimum wage.
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Moderator and Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said the debate will focus on six topics: debt and entitlements, immigration, economy, the Supreme Court, foreign hot spots, and fitness to be president.
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Its passage prevents Brazil from approving a key pension reform, because changes to the constitution such as those needed for the unpopular entitlements overhaul cannot be legally completed during a federal intervention.
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On the trail, he evinced little ideological consistency and used populist techniques to tap into grievances among a political base that hasn't necessarily embraced conservative policies, such as on trade and entitlements.
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His politics don't particularly fit either party: He favors LGBT rights and social rights, but he also wants to cut entitlements, keep taxes low, and considers deficits the "greatest threat" to America.
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Here are the topics of the third debate, and what the candidates have said so far: Both candidates have so far managed to avoid addressing the dreaded "third rail" of politics — entitlements.
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The cure for the deficit, he said, was that "we have to be tougher on spending" and that Republicans will "probably" turn the page to reform of "larger entitlements" after the midterms.
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For the 2014 farm bill , which is currently in place, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) originally predicted the total cost of mandatory programs -- which typically operate as entitlements -- would be $489 billion.
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Ted Lieu (Calif.) and John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (Ky.).
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Canada's Liberal government recently came to the latter conclusion and axed an Office of International Religious Freedom which its predecessor had created; it concluded that religious liberty was inseparable from other entitlements.
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Presidential advisor Larry Kudlow has signaled that the administration would look at these "larger entitlements" in 22019 in order to control their costs and some congressional Republicans would like to do so.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), another Pelosi supporter.
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I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE FACT THAT EVERY TERM SINCE I WAS BUDGET CHAIR, WE'VE PASSED BUDGETS IN THE HOUSE THAT BALANCE THE BUDGET, THAT REFORM ENTITLEMENTS THAT PAY DOWN THE DEBT.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D-Conn.), Sen.
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Meadows, who said he has talked to Trump about entitlements and spending, believes that with Republicans in charge of Congress and the White House, it is a critical time to take action.
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For years, GOP lawmakers -- led by Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.) -- have been sounding the alarm that a major overhaul to Medicare and other entitlements are needed to ensure they don't go bankrupt.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D-Conn.) said.
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He has suggested, again and again, that the Democratic "mob" will gut Medicare if elected, despite the fact that his administration has done much to damage entitlements and increase health care costs.
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First, Trumponomics appeals directly to older voters, seniors and near-seniors: its message on entitlements in obvious ways, its implausible promises about bringing back factory jobs via the deep power of nostalgia.
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This message, combined with his pledge to protect entitlements like Medicare and Social Security, was vital to his upset victory—helping him to win key the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
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It does nothing to change the structural problems with entitlements, which make up roughly two-thirds of the budget, or alter the path of U.S. budget deficits or debt loads going forward.
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People are more and more likely to see those who are different as their opponents, to hoard for themselves the sparse entitlements that have historically gone to our nation's most vulnerable people.
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Here's Kellyanne Conway on Fox News insisting that Trump didn't actually say what he said last night about cutting entitlements (she does this even after Fox News plays the clip back!) pic.twitter.
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The third issue is perhaps the most uncomfortable for congressional Republicans to confront: that many of their policy goals (cut taxes on the rich, repeal Obamacare, roll back entitlements) are deeply unpopular.
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President Trump sent Congress his vision for a federal budget, calling for large increases in military spending and cuts to Medicaid and other entitlements, while discarding longtime Republican orthodoxy about cutting deficits.
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Again and again, senators asked Mulvaney about the contradictions between his own stated views and those of Trump, and each time he stood his ground and reject his president's statements on entitlements.
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The corollary to this is that climate science, for skeptics, becomes feminized—or viewed as "oppositional to assumed entitlements of masculine primacy," Hultman and fellow researcher Paul Pulé wrote in another paper.
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Trump also says he'll triple the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, preserve entitlements, grow the military and make child care tax-deductible, all while sweeping in large-scale tax cuts.
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Trump, however, seems to realize that cutting entitlements is a political loser for him, and as a result has continued to make assertions about preserving them that are at odds with reality.
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The Trump budget does not even consider paying for the increases in hard power by reducing the growth of future entitlements, which are much larger and projected to grow faster than appropriations.
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The health care law, said Thomas Miller, a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, has underscored how new entitlements inevitably become part of what he called the "demilitarized zone" of politics.
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"With the Democratic Party's focus on open borders, what could be called excessive entitlements and identity politics, today's Democratic Party is simply not speaking the same language," said GOP strategist Ford O'Connell.
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The only way to stop the cycle of overspending in Washington and then fighting over raising the debt ceiling is to reform entitlements, anti-debt crusader Alan Simpson told CNBC on Tuesday.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.) said Monday on CNN.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.) for target practice.
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It's the latest effort by Pelosi and Democrats to demonize the tax-cut bill, which they argue will starve the government of funds and result in cuts to Medicare and other entitlements.
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Given the incredible rate and debatable efficiency of spending on government entitlements, some have asked whether a UBI might be a more effective, efficient and fair way to help people escape poverty.
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"We're going to have to get back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit," Mr. Ryan recently said, specifying "health care entitlements" in particular.
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Because entitlements constitute the large majority (roughly 67 percent) of federal expenditure, and because this component is growing at an unsustainable rate, shutdowns cannot have any meaningful impact on the budget deficit.
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That doesn't take away the safety net that people want to stay on the current system, but I think there are a lot of less expensive choices with entitlements that people would prefer.
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It comes after a review by the Chief Executive of The Royal Society of Arts Matthew Taylor said last year that many Britons working for firms in the gig economy deserved more entitlements.
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No EU member other than Britain has said it wants to stop the free movement of people, but the principle has been eroded in several respects, starting with limits on welfare-benefit entitlements.
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The Domestic Violence—Victims' Protection Bill allows people to request up to 10 days of leave a year if they are affected by domestic violence, on top of regular sick and vacation entitlements.
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CRUZ: Maria, I'd just like to say... (CROSSTALK) CHRISTIE: Maria, I'd like to interrupt this debate on the floor of the Senate to actually answer the question you asked, which was on entitlements.
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The state has been relentlessly downgraded by rating agencies, with Standard & Poor's in March designating New Jersey's credit-rating outlook from "stable" to "negative" following disputes over transportation funds and public union entitlements.
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More broadly, the reality is that some of millennials' biggest financial problems only become fixable if we also get a handle on the tax bills we'll have to pay for old-age entitlements.
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For instance, in recent years, budget-making has been particularly painful because of the "Budget Control Act" of 2011, which mandated deep and indiscriminate cuts to spending should lawmakers fail to reform entitlements.
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They would then be punished in subsequent elections and the federal government would return to its familiar divided self: unable to pass budgets, trim spending on entitlements or find money to repair roads.
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Some of the major challenges include a lack of public awareness of their basic rights and entitlements, the limited reach of institutions providing legal aid and too few courts and judges, say activists.
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Those statements will give Sanders a platform to revive the arguments he made during the Democratic presidential primary and press Mulvaney on whether he will adhere to Trump's hands-off policy on entitlements.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D-Conn.) — on Wednesday.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.) said at the hearing.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), believe would be useful.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.) about the government shutdown.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (Ky.) wants to change all that.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), the committee's ranking member.
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While wages declined and workers grew anxious about retirement, Republicans offered an economic program still centered on tax cuts for the affluent and the curtailing of popular entitlements like Medicare and Social Security.
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We have grave disagreements about social issues, about important foreign policy questions, about tax policy, about whether entitlements should be reformed or expanded, about what sort of judges should serve on our courts.
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" Entitlements when people live to 100: "Financial innovation has not kept up with life expectancy," the Financial Times warned in an article with the provocative title, "Can you afford to live to 100?
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The basic programs and services of government that are not crowded out of the budget by growing interest payments on the debt will have to be ritualistically sacrificed at the altar of entitlements.
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For decades, Republicans have dreamed of taking some of the vast sums the federal government spends on health care entitlements and handing the money over to states to use as they saw best.
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The former federal prosecutor rarely mentioned the president at his events, instead focusing on issues like protecting entitlements such as Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare and ending Pennsylvania's opioid crisis, for which Gov.
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In cases where a woman's father is deceased or absent, her husband, a male relative, brother, or in some cases, even a son, must give his approval before she can obtain basic entitlements.
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"It's a little bit of a solution in search of a problem," said Elaine Waxman, a senior fellow with the nonpartisan Urban Institute, who has studied food assistance programs and other government entitlements.
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DES MOINES — Former Vice President Joe Biden has taken flack in recent weeks for saying when he was a senator that he'd negotiate with Republicans on entitlements in order to balance the budget.
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The Speaker has hailed the increased military spending in Trump's proposal, but has so far declined to weigh in on the cuts to domestic programs and Trump's decision to leave the entitlements intact.
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Republicans should stay focused on these principles and commit to moving forward to make progress on spending, entitlements, and welfare and health care reforms as the next steps to enacting the conservative vision.
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He objected to spending levels that he said would exceed agreed caps by $43 billion, and called for spending reforms for so-called entitlements such as the Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs.
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Wallace: The one last area I want to get into in this debate is the fact that the biggest driver of our debt is entitlements, which is 60 percent of all federal spending.
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Military leaders issued similar doomsday warnings about sequestration that failed to stop the across-the-board cuts in 2013, with the military stuck in the middle of a larger fight on taxes and entitlements.
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"Entitlements are drowning out the funding of ultimately what is required to engender productivity growth, and as you know productivity growth is basic for all economic activity and especially standard of living," Greenspan said.
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After Obamacare became law it seemed to many people that the welfare state project was basically complete, that the future of American liberalism mostly involved tweaking entitlements around the edges to keep them solvent.
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And at the level of direct organizing, solidarity furnished the framework for the grassroots movements—which preached the need for solidarity and practiced it in deed—that successfully fought for such entitlements from below.
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A list of six topics for the third and final debate was released last week: foreign policy, entitlements and debt, the Supreme Court, the economy, immigration and each candidates' fitness to serve as president.
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This perhaps makes sense—how can someone who doesn't think twice about using their parliamentary entitlements to attend a polo match, or buy a luxury Gold Coast apartment, think that this is a problem?
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A Republican who supported gay marriage or disagreed with the Iraq War or wasn't militantly against entitlements wasn't really a Republican at all; this was the power of a political party to enforce discipline.
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And any formula used to target the bottom 20% is likely to be so opaque that people will never know whether they should have been included or not, so cannot fight for their entitlements.
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Here's the American business plan right now, because of our spending on defense and entitlements and interest, of all the money you send to Washington, seven cents goes into education, infrastructure and R&D.
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In the event of a partner's death, cohabiting couples do not have any legal entitlements to property if their partner dies, unless a provision is made in a will or a legally-binding document.
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" HARWOOD: I've had interviews with Republicans from Paul Ryan to John Thune who have been making the case that, "We are going to persuade the President that we have to do something about entitlements.
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THINK ABOUT HIS TAX PLAN AND HIS REFUSAL TO REFORM THE ENTITLEMENTS PROGRAM THAT WOULD INCREASE THE NATIONAL DEFICIT AND INCREASE THE NATIONAL DEBT, WHICH IS NOT GOOD FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES AND AMERICAN WORKERS.
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The federal government in Canberra is spending A$2000 billion ($21 billion) buying up and cancelling farmers' water entitlements in a bid to reduce salinity and repair other environmental damage stretching back a century.
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He ran as an America First nationalist who would tear apart free-trade agreements, protect entitlements, and make free-riding NATO allies pay their fair share at the threat of losing America's military support.
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Yes, Clinton says she wants to expand Social Security, but her economic team, largely inherited from President Obama, is going to be much more interested in a grand bargain on entitlements than Trump is.
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"I think of Vice President Pence as being for standard-issue conservative economic policies, including tax cuts in the spirit of Ryan/Trump, smaller government, spending cuts everywhere, including entitlements, except defense, " Bernstein said.
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The United States is already on track to dole out more money to pay off our debt than for defense, while Social Security and other entitlements are set to become insolvent within a decade.
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House Budget Chairman John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.) told Hill.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.) and Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.).
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The one last area I want to get into with you in this debate is the fact that the biggest driver of our debt is entitlements, which is 60 percent of all federal spending.
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In a letter to Amazon, Donald Bren, who chairs the real estate development company, said Amazon "will not be required to invest capital for land acquisition, buildings, or entitlements" for the $5 billion project.
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Deliveroo has previously said it would give its self-employed riders insurance and sick pay if the government changed the law so it could offer some, rather than all, the entitlements enjoyed by workers.
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FRONT PAGE An article on Sunday about Republicans' plans to reduce federal spending following the tax cut legislation quoted incorrectly from comments made by Senator Marco Rubio of Florida about entitlements and the deficit.
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It would exclude some entitlements from being considered in the "public charge" determination — like immunizations, attending public school, receiving free or reduced-price school lunches or earned benefits such as disability insurance and Medicare.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.) said in a statement in November.
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There would be little likelihood, then, of policy reforms pursued by the president and congressional leaders regarding Social Security, Medicare, or other entitlements that have been the bedrock of domestic policy for many decades.
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But the bottom line is, you do have to look at military and non-military and entitlements, the whole ball of wax, and if you cut one penny out of the dollar, it would balance.
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A lesson from America's engagement with Mexico is that a formal system for low-skilled immigration, perhaps with fewer entitlements than for skilled workers, is far preferable to turning a blind eye to informal migration.
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In August 2017, the government paid A$78.9 million ($56.2 million) for 28.7 gigaliters of water entitlements from Eastern Australia Agriculture, a company founded by Energy Minister Angus Taylor and based in the Cayman Islands.
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For example, "free public college tuition," just one in the cornucopia of Bernie Sanders' entitlements, would be paid for by a financial transaction tax (FTT), a 0.1 percent tax on all Wall Street financial transactions.
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Wallace is being held up as a hero for steering the discourse into specific areas of policy and for provoking some interesting exchanges between the candidates on gun rights, abortion, entitlements, immigration and foreign policy.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.) said on "This Week" earlier Sunday.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), the ranking member on the committee.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), said Monday at a press conference.
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"What I don't think is going to be happening over time is GDP that stays close to the 3 percent, and the essential reason is that ... entitlements are crowding out gross domestic savings," he said.
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In cases where a woman's father is deceased or absent, her husband, a male relative, brother, or in some cases, even a son, must give his approval before a woman can obtain often basic entitlements.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
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After many years of calling for a budget that cut spending, reformed entitlements, controlled the debt and balanced the budget, they failed to enact even one of those goals when they finally had a chance.
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On Sunday the GMB Union calculated that Uber drivers in the UK are £18,000 out of pocket as a result of the company continuing to fight the rights judgement, rather than paying the additional entitlements.
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Incrementalism — which is either a curse word or pathway to progress in the nomination fight between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden — has been the norm for the big three entitlements: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
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The next government may even consider much-needed reforms of labour laws and welfare entitlements, according to Emmanuel Alvarez Agis, another adviser who served under Néstor Kirchner, Ms Fernández's late husband and predecessor as president.
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" He wrote, "We have grave disagreements about social issues, about important foreign policy questions, about tax policy, about whether entitlements should be reformed or expanded, about what sort of judges should serve on our courts.
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If one party definitively shifted its position on an important subset of those issues — if the Republican Party shifted left on entitlements, for instance — the response by the other party could bring about a realignment.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which proposed the rule, would require expanded use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program, known as SAVE, a program administered by the Department of Homeland Security.
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It's doubtful that John Boehner and President Obama would have attempted a "grand bargain" to cut entitlements if Ryan hadn't become the Republicans' main voice on entitlement issues through his role on the Budget Committee.
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And because UBI does not have the same tinge of big government as other entitlements, conservative political movements can readily claim UBI for their own and use it as a cudgel to dismantle public programs.
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Barbara Comstock's northern Virginia district, focuses on policies such as raising wages, fighting job losses from outsourcing and "unfair" trade deals, protecting entitlements, lowering prescription drug costs, targeting monopolies and promoting long-term economic growth.
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" Her idea that Hugo's lovemaking entails obligations on his end, and entitlements on hers, sounds a lot like old-fashioned romantic morality, which she used to dismiss as "a meaningless concept from an irrational age.
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Unlike Republican nominees before him, the president ran on a platform of racially tinged nationalism, vowing to tear up trade deals and protect entitlements while using language rarely heard from mainstream politicians about minority communities.
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In the world of philosophy-influenced policy, the most significant general approach to animal entitlements until now has been that of the British utilitarian Jeremy Bentham, courageously and ably developed by the philosopher Peter Singer.
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As of June 30, 2017, the development pipeline included one in-process development (the Torrey Point office project in San Diego, which took 2123 years to obtain entitlements and permits for construction) and four pipeline projects.
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ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GET THE FINANCING SYSTEM THAT CREATES THE REVENUES THAT THE ENTITLEMENTS CREATE AND TO BE SURE AS THE POPULATION AGES, WE ARE GOING TO BUILD UP EVER INCREASING ENTITLEMENT LEVELS.
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Trump has repeatedly said that he will not cut entitlements, and said Monday he planned to cut from other government departments with the State Department and the Environmental Protection Agency expected to be a particularly hit.
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As of March 31, 13, the development pipeline included one in-process development (the Torrey Point office project in San Diego, which took 17 years to obtain entitlements and permits for construction) and four pipeline projects.
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"You can't increase defense spending, which the president proposes, cut taxes, which the president proposes, and leave entitlements untouched, which the president has proposed, and think you are going to have a balanced budget," Cole said.
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That sounds harsh, but with the economy continuing to expand for so many months now, it's time to admit that massive entitlements and other welfare programs are likely holding labor participation rates down to some degree.
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This would imply the same $1.2 billion valuation for DraftKings, given that the tie-up is repeatedly referred to in the document as a "merger of equals" — in terms of both voting rights and economic entitlements.
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This one funds the Pentagon (the largest of the 12 spending bills, accounting for more than half of all spending not devoted toward entitlements) and the measure for the Departments of Labor and Health & Human Services.
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Trump's economic advisory council published a report this month extolling the benefits of implementing work requirements, and Kentucky has been seen as a test case by the administration to see its ideas about entitlements play out.
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The purchases were part of a water market which sees the government buy water entitlements from farm owners to restore the Murray-Darling basin, an important ecological area home to 40 percent of Australia's agricultural production.
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Reality Check: Rubio on entitlements' impact on the federal budget By Tami Luhby, CNNMoney In talking about balancing the federal budget, Rubio once again talked about how just a few programs cost a lot of money.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (Conn.), a longtime member of Democratic leadership.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee.
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It focuses a lot on the fiscal sustainability of entitlements and trying to make coverage more portable — a good start on laying out what they could do if Republicans ever got control of the White House.
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And it would have paved the way for a somewhat responsible and experienced candidate with that message to win the 2016 primary by promising to protect entitlements, forestalling a challenge from a deranged game show host.
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And Trump succeeded by doing the exact opposite of what Pincus and Hoffman are proposing, with a platform that was socially illiberal, anti-planet, and pro-government when it came to issues like infrastructure and entitlements.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D-Conn.), a fellow Appropriations Committee member.
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But all this leads me to shake my head over the fact that entitlements, which are a huge and looming problem no matter what your politics, are not even part of the political conversation right now.
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However, House Budget Committee Chairman John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.) told Hill.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D–Conn.), for example, opposes this provision.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), the chairman of the House Budget Committee.
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The right path will include offsets for each new and existing program, the elimination of programs that fail to produce results and language that addresses our long-term fiscal challenges like the national debt and entitlements.
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Their interests were in quite a few things, but included job parity and legal entitlements and property settlements; body image kinds of things; equal pay for work of equal value; a whole cluster of those things.
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CHANOS: AND REALLY, I THINK IT WILL BE, AS PAUL RYAN, I THINK, HAS HINTED AT, IT WILL BE THE OPENING SALVOS THEN IN 18 AND 19 FOR CUTTING ENTITLEMENTS, WHICH IS MEDICARE AND MEDICAID, AGAIN.
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But if he loses a state he carried in 2016 — and one where Biden's record on trade, entitlements, and Iraq could be particularly problematic — it becomes much harder to see Sanders' path to the Democratic nomination.
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The veterans benefits system started more than a century ago, and in the time since — as new wars stacked on entitlements and new abuses stacked on reforms — it has grown into an unruly tower of regulations.
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But that Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database does not automatically reveal the status of immigrants who become U.S. citizens, which means thousands of noncitizens who are subsequently naturalized could mistakenly be tagged as illegal voters.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), ranking member of the House Budget Committee.
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But it does seem very likely that no matter who is elected, given the commitment of both candidates not to address our biggest fiscal problems like runaway entitlements, these problems will worsen in the coming years.
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If he shuns the lawmakers in his own party who want to overhaul entitlements such as Medicare and governs more as a populist than as a free-market conservative, it could complicate the Democratic comeback strategy.
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But he continues to call entitlements "freedoms," and in doing so demonizes employers and the so-called "1 percent" — while failing to mention that he makes over $85033,000 a year, nearly double the average CEO salary.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (Ky.), the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee.
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As of March 31, 2017, the development pipeline included one in-process development (the Torrey Point office project in San Diego, which took 17 years to obtain entitlements and permits for construction) and four pipeline projects.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D) is U.S. representative for Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District.
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Conservatives generally don't like the idea of expanding middle-class entitlements — even conservatives who have pushed Republicans to do more to help middle-income workers, such as Michael Strain, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute.
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I read these remarks as a call for Trump to move closer to conservative orthodoxy on economic issues — cutting spending and taxes, reforming entitlements, and expanding trade — while toning down the offensive rhetoric, particularly toward immigrants.
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He has established a Commission on Unalienable Rights, chaired by a conservative Catholic law professor, Mary Ann Glendon, with a brief to consider which human entitlements are clearly laid down by the American constitution and international conventions.
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But many of us also recognize the fact that our Democrat leaders, not just in Congress or the White House but in our own cities, have created unsustainable growth in entitlements, irresponsible budgeting and broken school systems.
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But many of us also recognize the fact that our democratic leaders, not just in Congress or the White House but in our own cities, have created unsustainable growth in entitlements, irresponsible budgeting, and broken school systems.
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Trump's refusal to consider changes to entitlements, hard line on immigration and the raucous, often vulgar, tone of his campaign also fly in the face of Ryan's orthodox conservative philosophy and hopes of broadening the GOP's appeal.
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While the general election has been seemingly void of policy issues, the future of Social Security and Medicare may come up at Wednesday's final presidential debate, where "debt and entitlements" are one of six pre-selected topics.
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Yet, politically Mr Putin needs these technocrats to preserve a system in which entitlements, privileges and rents are allocated not according to law or merit but by access to resources and by position in the social hierarchy.
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As The New York Times' Jim Tankersley noted on Twitter Monday night, discretionary spending (meaning government-authorized spending outside of entitlements like Medicare and Social Security) is now projected to grow at 4% for Trump's first term.
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Rather, it was that — unlike other historic attempts by the Democratic party to expand entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare — it adversely affected the lives and the pocketbooks of a large portion of the American electorate.
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It is surely significant that so many have voted for a candidate who is willing to soften his words on Planned Parenthood, who thinks that the Iraq War was a huge mistake or who won't reform entitlements.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.) said while heading to vote partway into the interview.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D-Conn.), also defended the White House's approach.
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The failure of this administration to even acknowledge the threat posed by our spiraling debt — and especially the unsustainability of the spending required to meet entitlements obligations — has massive direct consequences, and even more dramatic unintended ones.
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Many on the left suggest that concerns about entitlements are little more than fear-mongering by Republicans who want to slash benefits for the poor and less fortunate, while giving breaks to their fat-cat corporate donors.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.), a member of the Intelligence panel, said on CNN.
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Y.), Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D-Conn.), or any other leading leftie.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), the ranking member on the House Budget committee.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), who is planning on passing a budget blueprint.
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"This was the strongest increase in state consumption since 1992 following German reunification," the head of the Federal Statistics Office Dieter Sarreither said, adding this was due to spending on refugees as well as increased pension entitlements.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE, the state's only Democrat in the congressional delegation, wants answers.
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Spending on discretionary accounts and on major entitlements should be reduced by five percent from the prior year and revenues from the FICA and HI taxes should be increased by five percent if no budget is passed.
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Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.) spearheaded the letter.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (Ky.), the ranking Democrat on the Budget Committee, and Reps.
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Representative John Larson of Connecticut, one of the Democrats on the House tax-writing committee, says a Republican leader told him they would work everything out in the long run by cutting back on entitlements like Medicare.
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"What the US needs to do and India needs to do and every single government in the world needs to do is start taking down attitudes and entitlements that lead to violence, discrimination and crime," said Nundy.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee.
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In its place was a group of misguided people who demanded entitlements for all; encouraged a move toward the socialist states of Europe; and, rewarded those who chose not to accept responsibility for personal and family well-being.
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Mass protests followed the last major changes to the pension system in 2005, when the government turned a raft of benefits for pensioners into cash payments that for many did not nearly add up to the lost entitlements.
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Last year two parliamentary committees urged the government to close gig-economy employment law loopholes — saying they had enabled "dubious business practices" by letting digital work platforms use flexibility as a tool to circumvent workers rights and entitlements.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.), to add $380 million to funding for election security grants.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D-Conn.), chairwoman of the House Appropriations health subcommittee.
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Republican opposition to either type of bill would only give the lie to the idea that Republicans care about average Americans when it comes to their tax policies or to protecting entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D-Conn.) told reporters on a conference call Thursday.
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The moderator, Chris Wallace of "Fox News Sunday," has divided the hour-and-a-half event into six 25-minute segments, to cover immigration, the Supreme Court, entitlements and debt, the economy, foreign policy and fitness for office.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.) the latest to do so on Thursday night (The Hill).
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee. Rep.
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Both parties have largely repudiated Greenspan's precepts, with Republicans lurching toward protectionism and a nativist hostility for globalization and Democrats lurching toward something he would surely find equally repugnant: income redistribution, ever-expanding government entitlements and identity politics.
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Many of Bloomberg's comments about entitlements were made from 20113 to 2013, when a soaring US debt and deficit had become a prominent and contentious political issue, driven largely by the rise of the conservative Tea Party movement.
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Paul denounced as "new entitlements" two core elements of the Republican bill in both the House and Senate: a refundable tax credit to help people buy insurance and a "stabilization fund" of money to help bring down premiums.
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Deliveroo has previously said it would give its self-employed riders insurance and sick pay if the government changed the law so that it could offer some, rather than all, the entitlements enjoyed by full-time staff members.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told The Hill.
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Service members who normally receive Assignment and Special Duty Pay (ASDP) will continue to receive these entitlements since they will still be in the assignment or position while they are temporarily deployed away from their permanent duty station.
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Leading the way with our first-party titles including Halo Infinite in 2020, we're committed to ensuring that games from Xbox Game Studios support cross-generation entitlements and that your Achievements and game saves are shared across devices.
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Meanwhile, Republicans say talk of welfare or entitlement reform this year is also narrowing down to an emphasis on things like job training, not the broad overhaul of Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlements that Democrats have warned against.
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The anachronistic entitlements won by the all-powerful print unions, the gentlemen's agreements between the titles, their dutiful provision to the public of an edifying diet of political news; all are part of the same establishment to be razed.
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It is being in a status that offers no sense of career, no sense of secure occupational identity and few, if any, entitlements to the state and enterprise benefits that several generations … had come to expect as their due.
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I voted for the hope that entitlements will put accountability measures in place in order to keep low income black parents involved in their kids education as well as help spur job creation over well fare in some cases.
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However, according to an internal memo recently obtained by the BBC, ARM has now instructed its workers to end "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements" as a response to the U.S. government's new policy regarding Huawei.
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Aside from these potential appointments, Trump will also have to contend with the agenda of House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose proposal to privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security is at odds with Trump's campaign promise to defend these entitlements.
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Moreover, states bearing the burden of paying for the services provided to the Micronesians who have left their homelands should have a voice in setting the overall policies — especially when it comes to the federal entitlements for those migrants.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's welfare department is making benefit payments to 17 million people across the country after a court battle involving the service provider averted a fiasco that had put their entitlements at risk, officials said on Monday.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D-Conn.), chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee health panel.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D-Conn.) in response to an inquiry from The Hill.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), chairman the House Budget Committee, who will attend the meeting.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the financial services and general government subcommittee.
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And that suits Republican politicians well, because the same voters who worry about the national debt also tend to be unwilling to lose access to entitlements—including health care and pensions for seniors—that are primarily responsible for it.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.), who has not endorsed the impeachment route, told CNN on Thursday.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), Ranking member of the House Budget Committee, committee member Rep.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D-Conn.), an appropriator and member of the Budget Committee.
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The party has already moved away, wisely, from its Bush-era attempt at Social Security privatization, and figures like Speaker Ryan are always careful to stress that they're protecting entitlements for the long term, not just arbitrarily cutting them.
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McConnell was more direct in an interview also on Thursday with NPR, where he downplayed reforming entitlements and said that repealing or replacing Obamacare would be difficult given Senate rules that meant such a move would require 60 votes.
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According to the Peterson Foundation, in 2628, not long before the new law passed, over 28500 percent of spending was discretionary (controlled by the annual appropriations process) and about 6900 percent was mandatory (entitlements like Social Security and Medicare).
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Though new fiscal challenges may call for changes to the budget process (entitlements, not war spending, will likely continue to drive deficit growth), changes to the budget process should not erode the power of the Budget Committees or Congress.
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And after Blackstone went public in 2007, he created the Peter G. Peterson Foundation to raise public consciousness about long-term "politically untouchable" national challenges involving entitlements, foreign borrowing, health care costs, national savings, education, energy and nuclear proliferation.
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During the campaign, it became clear that a major part of Mr. Trump's appeal was that he frequently broke with Republican orthodoxies on a host of issues, including foreign policy, trade, entitlements, health care and, to some degree, immigration.
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Speaker Paul D. Ryan, for instance, has repeatedly said that he expects Mr. Trump to work with Republicans on their agenda of rolling back the Affordable Care Act and making large-scale changes to the tax code and entitlements.
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In a public consultation paper released on Monday, the government said that while all foreign purchases of Australian assets must be cleared by the Foreign Investment Review Board, "foreign investment in water entitlements is not specifically captured and measured".
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Paul Ryan predicts no shutdown, says GOP won't 'tackle' entitlements Over the last four decades, the federal government has failed to pass funding bills by the necessary deadlines nearly 20 times, according to data from the Congressional Research Service.
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Following Obama — whom many Gen Xers claim as one of their own — boomers helped elect another boomer, Donald Trump, partly on his promises to restore manufacturing greatness while also not touching any entitlements for those at or nearing retirement.
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"We set ourselves up for cutting taxes for businesses while potentially weakening the safety net programs for lower-income people, so if you want to deal with entitlements, do it in next year's budget, not this year's," he said.
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"When looking at a vision of new India, to know that our youngest are still excluded from the most basic entitlements — nutrition and care — it just compels you to do something," said Sumitra Mishra, executive director of Mobile Crèches.
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In a survey of about 2,000 randomly selected households in eight Indian states that the economist Jean Drèze and I conducted in 2013, the households collected only 87 percent of their entitlements; the rest of the resources were misdirected.
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House moves to add fines for members, start Obamacare repeal Washington's set up of competing branches of government will also open rifts, as will GOP divisions on issues like infrastructure spending and saving entitlements where Trump parts company with Republican orthodoxy.
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"The federal government has to pay staff posted from Abuja to Kaduna all their entitlements before we can contemplate moving to Kaduna to give our services," said Olayinka Abioye, secretary general of the National Union Of Air Transport Employees (NUATE).
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"I think the real problem is over the long run, we've got this significant continued drain coming from entitlements, which are basically draining capital investment dollar for dollar," he told CNBC's Sara Eisen during a "Squawk on the Street " interview.
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" Trump, for his part, vowed during a Republican presidential debate on CBS in February that he would "not touch" entitlements, saying, "I will do everything within my power not to touch Social Security, to leave it the way it is.
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Moderator Chris Wallace largely kept the candidates to the six issues that had been decided on as topics for the evening: entitlements and debt, foreign policy, the economy, immigration, the Supreme Court and each candidates' fitness to serve as president.
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My favoured solution is to give more power to local governments: while centralising certain decisions in the administrative state (most notably over taxes and entitlements) we need to create a counter-balancing pressure by handing other decisions to locally elected politicians.
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However, more than any other Republican candidate, he shows little interest in spending cuts — he has taken cutbacks to entitlements off the table — and favors allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, which most conservatives see as tantamount to federal price controls.
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Are they so inept that they can't devise a strategy to overcome the left's predictable tactics and put them on the defensive for their failed, expensive and unnecessary programs, along with their refusal to reform entitlements, the real driver of debt?
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On one hand, liberty of conscience and belief is one of the first and most fundamental principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and other documents that lay out humanity's minimum entitlements.
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Politically, the U.B.I. looks a lot more plausible than a subsidy aimed only at mothers, because, as Social Security and Medicare make clear, policies have more staying power when perceived as general entitlements rather than free cash for free riders.
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A Sanders elevation to the top of the party would influence the near-term trajectory of the Democratic party, igniting a deeper debate on taxes, minimum wage, the environment, entitlements and the way wealth is distributed between corporations and citizens.
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They are intended to shift the debate over safety net programs sharply to the right by redefining "welfare" to encompass programs beyond direct cash assistance, like housing subsidies, that have long been regarded as quasi-entitlements, several administration officials said.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.) said on CNN, referencing a Russia hearing canceled by the panel's chairman, Rep.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (Ky.) to serve as the ranking member of the Budget Committee, replacing Rep.
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It's being held at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and moderated by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, who will ask questions on debts and entitlements, immigration, the economy, the Supreme Court, foreign hot spots, and fitness to be president.
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Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (D-Conn.) said in a statement to The Hill on Tuesday.
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If we actually want to have a productive conversation about the future of work, about the future of a welfare state or social entitlements, and if we want to win elections, we should think about it in very different ways.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.) told CBS News when asked about his concerns about threats to November's midterms.
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Y.), Luis Gutiérrez (Ill.) and John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (Ky.) introduced those articles of impeachment with Green.
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In another positive sign for private consumption, Berlin decided in mid-April to raise pension entitlements by more than 4 percent in the West and nearly 6 percent in the East this year - the biggest hikes in more than two decades.
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The Democrats are: Budget Committee Chairman John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (Ky.) and a member of his panel, Rep.
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ARLINGTON, Va. — The rise of Donald J. Trump, with his hostility toward free trade and vow to protect entitlements, is a sharp rebuke to the free-market principles long championed by the billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE, the state's top-ranking Democratic official and the only Kentucky Democrat in Congress.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE co-sponsors four Medicare-for-all measures (Louisville Courier Journal) View the discussion thread.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), who has served with Waters for the past decade, told The Hill.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.) to provide those resources, and Senate Republicans rejected a similar amendment last week.
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Mike QuigleyMichael (Mike) Bruce QuigleyLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits Mueller Day falls flat Mueller on Trump's WikiLeaks embrace: 'Problematic is an understatement' MORE (D-Ill.) told CBS News when asked about his concerns about threats to November's midterms.
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Conservatives including Justice Clarence Thomas and the late Antonin Scalia, have argued that Medicaid is a contract between states and the federal government, and that the law doesn't give individuals the right to sue for the entitlements the statute requires.
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While clearances are not entitlements — they are granted based on an individual's need and capacity to handle classified information and can always be denied or revoked — the Hatch Act already obligates officials to keep partisan politics out of their day jobs.
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There are other areas where millennials and all-American workers under 50 could really use a powerful lobby group of their own, but keeping it simple on the issues of voting participation, entitlements, and health care are logical places to start.
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In a whirlwind of activity, Macron has taken aim at the protections and entitlements that have made it hard to hire and fire in France, and sometimes made not working (at least in the official economy) more rewarding than working.
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" On another day he might comment on the Reagan administration's social services agenda: "To say 'no entitlements,' or 'let the states do it,' or 'let the private sector do it' is a barely varnished way of saying 'Don't do it.
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And while Trump insists that Republicans are the ones trying to save entitlements from destruction, the irony is that the truth is exactly the opposite: Entitlement cuts are dead on arrival as long as Democrats control a chamber of Congress.
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Jaime Herrera BeutlerJaime Lynn Herrera BeutlerDCCC unveils initial dozen candidates for 'Red to Blue' program DCCC to run ads tying 28500 House Republicans to Trump remarks on entitlements Democrats launch bilingual ad campaign off drug pricing bill MORE (R-Wash.).
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Trump told CNBC in an interview on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that he would "take a look at" rolling back entitlements "at the right time" before quickly pivoting to discuss the strength of the economy.
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"The President said in an interview yesterday at Davos that he will take a look at cutting Social Security and other entitlements after the 2020 election and that it is, actually, he said, the easiest of all things," Schumer said.
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But at Fox News, immigration is Issue No. 22 — after Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Benghazi, Hillary Clinton's emails, ISIS, ISIS, ISIS, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Export-Import Bank, entitlements reform, ISIS and everything else.
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A full populist Trump presidency would give us tariffs and trade wars, an infrastructure bill that would have Robert Moses doing back flips, a huge wall and E-Verify and untouched entitlements and big tax cuts for the middle class.
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But the early reaction from members of his party on Capitol Hill was muted at best, reflecting in part the discomfort among many of the party's leaders with a budget that makes no progress on tackling the growth of entitlements.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (D-Ky.), that would allow for a Government Accountability Office study on the cap.
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C.), Rosa DeLauroRosa Luisa DeLauroLawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House bill would make World Cup funds contingent on equal pay Trump faces new hit on deficit MORE (Conn.), Nita LoweyNita Sue LoweyPelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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Coming out against free trade and open borders, defending entitlements, attacking veterans, cozying up to foreign autocrats, indulging in openly racist and xenophobic rhetoric: none of these things have hurt Trump with the vast majority of Republican voters and politicians.
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Senator and former presidential candidate Marco Rubio has proposed something like this called a "flex fund," where states would get money currently allocated for federal entitlements like SNAP (and federal-state ones like Medicaid) and be allowed to spend it as they wish.
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IMMIGRATION On Inauguration Day, CNN visited Sherman Immigration Court, considered the "toughest immigration court" in the US ECONOMY Trump and his OMB nominee Mick Mulvaney may clash over a number of fiscal policies -- including infrastructure spending, entitlements, tax cuts and the debt ceiling.
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That came on top of Kuwait&aposs cradle-to-grave entitlements for it citizens, which the OPEC member is able to afford because it holds the world&aposs sixth-largest known oil reserves — despite being smaller than the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Entitlements will be a 2020 fight Democrats have made protecting entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid a staple of their platform, alongside anti-poverty programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), housing assistance and various tax credits.
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Trump cannot ride comfortably on economic performance alone, especially given that the outlook might darken in the months ahead, and the Republican vulnerability on entitlements was among the factors that made Trump's populist heterodoxy during the 2016 election so compelling to so many.
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The extraordinary 2016 presidential election process has already revealed the massive disenchantment of working-class Republicans with what the party establishment has long viewed as Ronald Reagan's holy writ: tax cuts for the rich, scaling back entitlements, overseas interventions and free trade.
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In 2005 following Hurricane Katrina — which caused over $100 billion in damage — then Congressman Mike Pence opposed a relief bill unless it came with cuts to Medicare and Social Security, cuts he likely knew would sink the bill because Congress hates cutting entitlements.
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The BBC said ARM had instructed employees to halt "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements" with Huawei and its subsidiaries after the United States added Huawei to a list of companies with which U.S. firms could not do business.
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Instead, they have pointed to structural issues, such as growing economic inequality, the lack of public programs like paid family leave and part-time work entitlements, the declining value of the minimum wage, and inflexible workplace policies that disproportionately reward long hours.
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John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (Ky.) was a rare Democrat to promote Mick Mulvaney's nomination for White House budget director.
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But even if you create an environment that would change the tone, and replace personal attacks with politeness, you are still left with Grand Canyon-like policy differences that divide us on issues from immigration to health care to entitlements to climate change.
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