budget surplus
noun
: more money than is needed to pay for planned expenses
The state currently has a $3 million budget surplus.
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In 2024, Texas had a budget surplus of nearly $33 billion.
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Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
With Connecticut facing the possibility of exceeding the cap by $61 million, Lamont is reining in spending, annoying some liberal Democrats who note that the state is simultaneously looking at a budget surplus.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2025
The program drew the majority of its funds from a budget surplus in 2023-2024 fiscal year, city officials have said.
—Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2025
New funds, the result of a state budget surplus, are allowing the department to speed up construction of multiple interchanges along the highway in the central Treasure Valley, allowing the full corridor that connects Interstate 84 to Emmett to open by 2027, the release said.
—Marcus Dorsey, Idaho Statesman, 7 Feb. 2025
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Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
With Connecticut facing the possibility of exceeding the cap by $61 million, Lamont is reining in spending, annoying some liberal Democrats who note that the state is simultaneously looking at a budget surplus.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2025
The program drew the majority of its funds from a budget surplus in 2023-2024 fiscal year, city officials have said.
—Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2025
New funds, the result of a state budget surplus, are allowing the department to speed up construction of multiple interchanges along the highway in the central Treasure Valley, allowing the full corridor that connects Interstate 84 to Emmett to open by 2027, the release said.
—Marcus Dorsey, Idaho Statesman, 7 Feb. 2025
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“Budget surplus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/budget%20surplus. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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