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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Now, many are questioning how Maryland went from a $5.5 billion surplus at the end of the previous administration, comprising $3 billion in rainy day funds and a $2.5 billion budget surplus, to a multibillion-dollar deficit in just a few years.
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J.b. Jennings, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2025
In the past 50 years, the federal government has ended with a fiscal year-end budget surplus four times, most recently in 2001.
—Brett Rowland | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Jan. 2025
Where would the $100 million go? In 2023, when Idaho was riding on a $1.4 billion budget surplus, lawmakers approved a bill to create a fund to issue property tax relief to homeowners and give school districts funding to cover some of their bond and levy costs.
—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 28 Jan. 2025
Amid political battles over access to water in the southwest, the governor plans to take advantage of the recent attention, her political capital and the state’s budget surplus.
—Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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J.b. Jennings, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2025
In the past 50 years, the federal government has ended with a fiscal year-end budget surplus four times, most recently in 2001.
—Brett Rowland | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Jan. 2025
Where would the $100 million go? In 2023, when Idaho was riding on a $1.4 billion budget surplus, lawmakers approved a bill to create a fund to issue property tax relief to homeowners and give school districts funding to cover some of their bond and levy costs.
—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 28 Jan. 2025
Amid political battles over access to water in the southwest, the governor plans to take advantage of the recent attention, her political capital and the state’s budget surplus.
—Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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