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California refunds just 20 percent of the first $100 million a project spends and excludes the salaries of directors and actors, which are often the biggest line items.
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Lane Brown, Vulture, 3 June 2025
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is budgeting $50 million as a new line item on the Coast Guard’s ledger for a new DHS jet.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 16 May 2025
Content Sales/Licensing and Other, the line item encompassing studio returns, saw revenue shoot up 54% from the year-earlier period, to $2.15 billion.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 7 May 2025
The money for the two aquariums, which sit 88 miles apart at opposite ends of I-95, were line items in a $35 million appropriation for tourism over the next two years.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2025
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Lane Brown, Vulture, 3 June 2025
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is budgeting $50 million as a new line item on the Coast Guard’s ledger for a new DHS jet.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 16 May 2025
Content Sales/Licensing and Other, the line item encompassing studio returns, saw revenue shoot up 54% from the year-earlier period, to $2.15 billion.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 7 May 2025
The money for the two aquariums, which sit 88 miles apart at opposite ends of I-95, were line items in a $35 million appropriation for tourism over the next two years.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2025
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“Line item.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/line%20item. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.
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