Spending in a sentence

The legislation empowered the president to sign any spending bill into law while simultaneously striking certain spending items within the bill, particularly any new spending, any amount of discretionary spending, or any new limited tax benefit.

According to new data from the Royal Bank of Canada's spending tracker, Canadians are cutting back their spending on discretionary goods like clothes and restaurants, but spending on non-essential services — especially travel — remained strong.

Asked whether defence spending would get special treatment because of the fragile global situation, she said: ‘There is not some magic pot for any area of government spending – it has to come out of this (spending) envelope.

This is not the first time a Republican president has betrayed his promise to cut spending: Both President Bushes, as well as President Reagan, campaigned on pledges to cut spending then increased spending and debt while in office.

Erecting barriers to spending can slow down the rate of spending, or even provide enough time for the spending impulse to dissipate.

Since 2010, spending for state public health departments has dropped by 16% per capita and spending for local health departments has fallen by 18%, according to an analysis of government spending on public health by KHN and The Associated Press.

The agreement would increase spending by $300 billion dollars, with a large increase in military spending coupled with domestic spending that the Democrats want included in any agreement.

Low levels of spending relative to GDP by having no spending on armed forces, minimal outlays for foreign affairs and modest recurrent social welfare spending have allowed the accumulation of very large fiscal reserves with minimal foreign debt.

All spending categories are now in contractionary territory – that is, below 100 per cent – aside from non-discretionary spending, or essentials.

A recovery based on consumer spending is likely to be more gradual than one driven by stimulus spending or a boom in real estate investment.

As for Christmas Day, Ms Doncon won't be spending big on presents or a lavish meal, despite already cutting back on food spending throughout the year.

At times of risk and stress many organizations are going to seek to constrain spending, and that inevitably means ad spending along with everything else.

Britain is Europe's biggest military donor to Ukraine, spending £2.3 billion last year, but there has been no rise in defence spending to compensate for the impact on our own needs.

But both households and businesses remain wary, the former saving instead of spending and private business actually cutting back on its capital spending during the past year.

CalOptima’s spending on homeless health services and other programs – whether those services are being delivered quickly and if CalOptima is being transparent about the spending.

Delta state spending over N215bn on recurrent expenditure or Bayelsa spending more on recurrent expenditure than Kano State does not look good for fiscal sustainability considering the volatility of oil prices.

Democrats don’t care and insisted that spending bill after spending bill was rammed through.

Despite this, overall defence spending across the alliance increased by 2.2% in real terms compared with the previous year; Stoltenberg praised efforts from members to “step up” spending overall.

Every time Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43, or Trump attempted to negotiate a compromise with the Dems that included spending cuts, the Dems got their stuff and promptly reneged on spending cuts.

Experian reviewed national sales data to determine if back-to-school spending has a noticeable impact on consumer spending behavior.