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
• Of course, no one will touch the teacher’s unions to help balance the budget.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Why is Congress the only group that refuses to balance a budget?
  — Gina Raimondo, CBS News, 3 Sep. 2023
• To balance the budget, the board later voted to cut dozens of vacant teacher positions.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2023
• 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
• In the short term, cutting research may seem like a fiscally responsible way to balance the budget.
  — John Drake, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
• 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
• Raising taxes to balance a budget is not part of her philosophy of governing.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 7 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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, district officials could be forced to make millions of spending reductions.
  — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
• The school introduced several cuts over the past year, hoping to balance the budget by 2026.
  — Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 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
• Republicans in '94 put together a plan to balance a budget in 10 years.
  — CBS News, 30 Apr. 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
• 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 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Instead of figuring out ways to save money and balance the budget, all San Diego’s mayor and council do is talk about how to raise money for things that won’t make the city better.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025