cutback

The “survival of the fittest” agenda permeates the cutbacks in food stamps, housing and heating assistance, which are based on beliefs about the “undeserving poor” — those who are supposedly lazy, or unmotivated, or greedy.

The federal government is in cutback mode, including Head Start.

County’s health services are anticipating federal cutbacks in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The cutback in federal funding for the arts in Austria sounds a little too close to home.

Those who applaud the federal cutbacks say that state and local governments should pay for these programs if they are valuable.