How to Use balance a/the budget in a Sentence

balance a/the budget

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  • Now is not the time to balance the budget on the back of the library.
    — Patrick Stewart, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Deficits and growth Would Trump’s tariffs be enough to balance the budget?
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
  • In other cities the forecast is a tool used to balance the budget before the end of the fiscal year.
    — Michael D. Belsky, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Granted, the Wildcats aren’t alone in their struggle to balance the budget — Arizona State is also deep in the red.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 23 June 2024
  • 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
  • The school introduced several cuts over the past year, hoping to balance the budget by 2026.
    — Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The Kane County Board, along with a number of its committees, have spent the past several months discussing ways to balance the budget.
    — R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 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
  • Also like Reagan, Trump is very unlikely to balance the budget.
    — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The notice says that if more than eight hours of furlough is necessary to balance the budget, a separate notice will be issued.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
  • But with the city having to temper its revenue expectations, Mahan said the City Council will need to make some tradeoffs to help balance the budget.
    — Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2025
  • 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

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