balance a/the budget
idiom
: to have enough money to provide the amount to be spent
The government may have to raise taxes to balance the budget.
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Democrats and Republicans have different views on the situation as state officials try to balance the budget against the backdrop of a volatile stock market reeling over uncertainty from President Donald J. Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs.
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Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2025
The president who caused the biggest recent cutback in the bureaucracy – and the last to balance the budget — was a Democrat, Bill Clinton.
—Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
With billions of dollars in federal pandemic money no longer available to Illinois, the next spending plan has promised to be a test of fiscal discipline for a Democratic governor who was forced to raise taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars last year to balance the budget.
—Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
Of course, no one will touch the teacher’s unions to help balance the budget.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2025
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Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2025
The president who caused the biggest recent cutback in the bureaucracy – and the last to balance the budget — was a Democrat, Bill Clinton.
—Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
With billions of dollars in federal pandemic money no longer available to Illinois, the next spending plan has promised to be a test of fiscal discipline for a Democratic governor who was forced to raise taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars last year to balance the budget.
—Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
Of course, no one will touch the teacher’s unions to help balance the budget.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2025
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“Balance a/the budget.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/balance%20a%2Fthe%20budget. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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