As Congress and states struggle to cut budget deficits here are six win-win budget fixes.
The Chancellor, George Osborne told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I want a cut in the EU budget, David Cameron wants a cut in the EU budget" and both were determined to "end the outrageous increases in European spending".
The fact of the matter is that you are talking about a 13 percent cut in our defense budget and 9 percent cut in our nondefense discretionary budget this year.
Obviously a budget process we have had since we got here to cut the budget deficit in half over a four-year period of time.
The IMF also called on the U.S. to try harder to cut its budget deficit.
And yet, physical education and intramural programs are among the first things cut by budget hawks.
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The housing minister says it's a priority but her colleague the finance secretary has cut the budget.
For them to pretend they were more eurosceptic and willing to cut the budget was purely opportunistic.
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The Portuguese Parliament rejected the proposed bill to cut the budget and raise income, pension and VAT taxes.
The new tasks are being loaded on as austerity is forcing the commission to cut its budget too.
With welfare payments also linked to prices, high inflation makes it more difficult to cut the budget deficit.
He insists his government will manage to cut a budget deficit that hit 8.9% of GDP last year.
The committee was ordered to cut its budget to nine billion dollars below the president's requests for 2012.
He didn't say that this was an effort to cut the budget deficit.
Shortly before this, the Sydney organisers had been forced to cut their budget once again because of a revenue shortfall.
"It's been hard because we have cut the budget massively and we may have to do the same next year, " he said.
If they agree to cut the budget to one point then almost immediately comes the demand that yet more must be done.
Allen highlighted the recession hitting local businesses as a major reason for a reason for the club's decision to cut the budget.
Harding had dramatically cut the budget, still bloated from World War I, but he lacked the stamina to keep up the work.
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He said they had cut the budget deficit by a quarter in two years and there were "positive signs" for the future.
The government has been trying both to cut the budget deficit and to make the tax system friendlier to growth and employment.
That said, the deal still requires Romania to cut the budget deficit from 4.4% of GDP in 2011 to 1.9% this year.
Republicans are wasting no time in establishing their position in the debt ceiling-cum-sequester war: Cut the budget, or we shut down the government.
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We'll cut the budget deficit in half in four years and put ourselves -- put this country back on a path toward fiscal sustainability.
Because the majority of its 47, 000 employees are air traffic controllers, it is impossible to cut its budget without affecting controllers, the agency said.
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For the government, it was preemptive strike to ensure that it fulfills its pledge to cut the budget deficit to 2.7% of GDP by 2012.
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Buffeted by the international financial turmoil, Brazil, having doubled interest rates to bolster its overvalued currency, turned to long-term reforms to cut its budget deficit.
House Speaker John Boehner and his lieutenants were working to whip Republicans into line behind their plan to cut the budget while raising the debt limit.
The UK government has put local councils and the devolved administrations in charge of the benefit, but it has also cut the budget by around 10%.
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