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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Federal spending of $93 billion in 1945 collapsed to $30 million in 1948, producing an ample budget surplus that year.
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Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Tim Walz burned through an $18 billion budget surplus, raised taxes by $10 billion, and allowed massive fraud to run rampant in his own agencies.
—Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 20 Aug. 2025
President Trump welcomed a rare bit of good news in June — a $27 billion monthly federal budget surplus.
—Jon Toomey, Boston Herald, 26 July 2025
Mount Healthy City Schools may reach a sliver of a budget surplus at the end of the fiscal year, roughly one year after the state placed the district under fiscal emergency, officials said.
—The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Tim Walz burned through an $18 billion budget surplus, raised taxes by $10 billion, and allowed massive fraud to run rampant in his own agencies.
—Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 20 Aug. 2025
President Trump welcomed a rare bit of good news in June — a $27 billion monthly federal budget surplus.
—Jon Toomey, Boston Herald, 26 July 2025
Mount Healthy City Schools may reach a sliver of a budget surplus at the end of the fiscal year, roughly one year after the state placed the district under fiscal emergency, officials said.
—The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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“Budget surplus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/budget%20surplus. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.
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