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.
With welfare payments also linked to prices, high inflation makes it more difficult to cut the budget deficit.
He didn't say that this was an effort to cut the budget deficit.
"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.
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.
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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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%.
So why cut the budget for continued missile defense deployment?
And if we really want to lower tax rates and cut the budget deficit, we are all going to have to give up some of our most cherished benefits.
President Obama often claims he wants to cut the budget smartly, using a "scalpel" not a meat axe, machete, cleaver or chainsaw, to list a few of his favorite metaphors.
Next year Greece could tell everyone to go away and cry for their lost money and still be able to run Greece without having to cut the budget at all.
In a plan drafted in September, it resolved to cut the budget deficit to 4.3% of GDP, refrain from borrowing from the central bank and remove fuel and electricity subsidies.
When this Administration set out to cut the budget deficit that we inherited, our original plan called for roughly equal spending cuts and revenue increases (with spending cuts in fact slightly larger).
The moral seems to be that a country that grows by 7% annually and sticks to spending limits can cut taxes, increase government spending and cut the budget deficit at the same time.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said his government would do whatever it takes to meet its ambitious goal to cut the budget deficit from 12.7% gross domestic product last year to below 3% by the end of 2012.
The plan, which bears the fingerprints of Jan Bielecki, a former prime minister, aims to cut the budget deficit from 5.6% of GDP today to just 1% of GDP by 2015, and to reduce public debt from 55% of GDP to 47%.
Indeed, many analysts now say Spain could manage to sidestep a programme altogether, as the possibility of ECB intervention continues to keep Madrid's borrowing costs low for long enough for it to cut the budget deficit and get the economy back on track.
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