How to Use balance a/the budget in a Sentence

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• Much of the plan to balance the budget hinges on the sale of the Oakland Coliseum, the longtime home of the Oakland Athletics.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
• In the other 18 years, the city had to sell off buildings and stuff like that to balance the budget.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2023
• Okay, but waste, fraud, and abuse aren't going to balance the budget, ok?
  — NBC News, 22 Jan. 2023
• To balance the budget as required by law, city leaders need to cut that amount.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
• Newsom doesn’t want to balance the budget by dipping into the state’s Rainy Day Fund.
  — Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023
• Instead of selling our land to balance the budget, lets reduce the cost of government.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• The Senate’s plan includes a $1,300 dividend that would balance the budget with no draw from savings.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
• Why is Congress the only group that refuses to balance a budget?
  — Gina Raimondo, CBS News, 3 Sep. 2023
• To balance the budget, the district announced nearly 400 positions were going to be cut back in April.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2024
• Congress would increase the debt ceiling while putting the federal government on a path to balance the budget in the near future.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• Our members will not be the ones expected to balance the budget of the company’s poor business decisions over the last year.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 July 2024
• To balance the budget, the board later voted to cut dozens of vacant teacher positions.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2023
• But this promise has merely slid next to a contradictory one—that the party will reduce the deficit and balance the budget.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
• There’s a requirement to balance the budget, but no such requirement to fill an off-the-balance-sheet financial hole.
  — Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
• He’s promised that the Budget Committee will come up with a plan to balance the budget in ten years, starting from fiscal year 2022 spending levels.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 21 Jan. 2023
• Facing a $1 billion-plus budget deficit over two years, Gov. Katie Hobbs has some ideas on what items to cut to balance the budget, as required by the state constitution.
  — The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2024
• To balance the budget after the recession ends for example?
  — The Intersection, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2011
• Republicans in '94 put together a plan to balance a budget in 10 years.
  — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
• That would balance the budget in five years and allow the federal government to raise spending by 10% every year thereafter.
  — NBC News, 22 Jan. 2023
• To help balance the budget over a decade, Mr. Vought’s budget projects that the economy will achieve 3.1 percent growth next year and average about 2.8 percent for the remaining years.
  — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• Were Petek’s figure valid, the state would have to make huge adjustments in spending and perhaps entertain tax increases to balance the budget.
  — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
• Lately, there have been discussions by the City Council of possible funding cuts to the Police Department in order to balance the budget.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
• Bass has repeatedly argued that city leaders can give raises, balance the budget and deliver services at the same time.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2024
• Raising taxes to balance a budget is not part of her philosophy of governing.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 7 Dec. 2021
• Petek, the legislative analyst, suggested Newsom and lawmakers could use some — but not all — of that money to help balance the budget.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
• And Wagner has pointed to the drying up of pandemic relief funds as another wrinkle in the district's efforts to balance the budget, which school districts in Ohio must do every year by the end of June.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 30 May 2024
• Voting to balance the budget is a vote fiscal conservatives would relish taking.
  — Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023
• Impower provided housing and mental health support and also helped Arencibia earn her high school diploma and learn life skills, like how to balance a budget.
  — Michael Cuglietta, Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2024
• No justification details are offered except that the authors in the Legislature want more money to balance the budget and for their programs.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
• Some council members at Tuesday’s meeting expressed concern about spending money at a time when the city is slashing vacant positions to balance the budget.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024