All posts tagged "spending"

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  Puerto Rico fiscal board: 24 gov’t resolutions totaling $30 million in spending do not comply with Promesa

  Requiring notification of any related disbursements by May 15

  • Posted May 6, 2019
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  Fiscal board invalidates several Puerto Rico spending bills

  Gov's rep to board questions move

  • Posted February 27, 2019
• Aides: Congress Makes Progress on Zika, Spending

  WASHINGTON – A long impasse that has delayed money to combat Zika for months neared an end Thursday as congressional aides said Republicans would relent and let Planned Parenthood affiliated clinics share in new funding to fight...

  • Posted September 15, 2016
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  Lawmakers Likely to Do What They Do Best: The Bare Minimum

  WASHINGTON – Lawmakers return to Washington this week for an abbreviated election-season session in which they will likely do what they do best: the bare minimum. All Congress must do this month is keep the government from...

  • Posted September 4, 2016
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  Obama Threatens to Veto GOP-Backed Bill on Zika Virus Aid

  Saying it provided too little money and contained too many partisan provisions

  • Posted June 24, 2016
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  Poland Avoids Moody’s Ratings Downgrade but Outlook Cut

  Amid concerns over new government's move to erode independence of key institutions and increase spending

  • Posted May 14, 2016
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  US Consumer Borrowing Jumps 10 Percent in March

  Fastest pace in more than a decade

  • Posted May 6, 2016
• Eurozone Economy Ends 2015 with Whimper as Dark Clouds Grow

  LONDON – The 19-country eurozone is in its longest stretch of economic expansion since the global financial crisis in 2008 but growth remains paltry despite a series of tail winds and is susceptible to a reverse if...

  • Posted February 12, 2016
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• US Economy is Expected to Strengthen after Weak 4th Quarter

  WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy struggled to grow in the October-December quarter as consumer spending, business investment and exports slowed. Yet despite global weakness and shrunken oil and stock prices, many economists expect growth to accelerate on...

  • Posted January 29, 2016
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• GOP Candidates Misstate Military Spending

  WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says the Obama administration has “gutted” every weapons system in the U.S. military’s inventory. GOP rival Donald Trump says the military is a “disaster.” Florida Sen. Marco Rubio maintains that...

  • Posted January 25, 2016
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