How to Use balance a/the budget in a Sentence
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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
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Okay, but waste, fraud, and abuse aren't going to balance the budget, ok?
—NBC News, 22 Jan. 2023
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To balance the budget as required by law, city leaders need to cut that amount.
—Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Why is Congress the only group that refuses to balance a budget?
—Gina Raimondo, CBS News, 3 Sep. 2023
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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
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To balance the budget, the board later voted to cut dozens of vacant teacher positions.
—Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To balance the budget after the recession ends for example?
—The Intersection, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2011
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Republicans in '94 put together a plan to balance a budget in 10 years.
—CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Raising taxes to balance a budget is not part of her philosophy of governing.
—Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 7 Dec. 2021
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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
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Voting to balance the budget is a vote fiscal conservatives would relish taking.
—Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023
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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
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Stewart, Jawando and Mink objected to the council’s decision to tap the county’s reserves and use more than $159 million in one-time funds to balance the budget, calling for a larger property tax increase to fill the funding gap.
—Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
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Faced with the choice of cutting $125 million or a state takeover, San Francisco school district officials have come up with a plan to balance the budget, one that would hit classrooms hard and eliminate funding for long-standing student programs.
—Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2021
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Today, few politicians meaningfully discuss how to balance the budget.
—Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
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After two years of belt tightening amid the coronavirus pandemic and using cash reserves to balance the budget, Waukegan officials expect to have a $1.6 million cash surplus for the coming fiscal year.
—Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
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Separately, the health center needs $77 million to balance the budget in the current fiscal year, including millions needed to pay for pensions for older state employees.
—Christopher Keating, courant.com, 28 Aug. 2020
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To help balance the budget, park managers have proposed a suite of fee increases for camping reservations, wilderness permits and related lotteries.
—Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
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Dunleavy ran for his first term in office promising a full statutory dividend, after his predecessor, Bill Walker, in 2016 vetoed half that year’s dividend to help balance the budget.
—Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2023
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