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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Voting to balance the budget is a vote fiscal conservatives would relish taking.
  — Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Today, few politicians meaningfully discuss how to balance the budget.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Constitutionally, any money raised from the new surtax is mandated to go to education and transportation, not to simply balance the budget.
  — Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024