It also allows Republicans to make budget cuts from groups on the other side of the political aisle.
In particular there were concerns about schools being expected to make budget savings in times of financial stringency.
That will drag down nominal GDP in the short term, and make budget cuts more difficult to carry out.
Labour councillor David McKie said he felt ministers had a duty to help with the transition costs - particularly at a time when the local authority was under pressure to make budget cuts.
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So as much as you would love to see none of this, obviously states, as I've said, because of experiencing the same dramatic economic downturn that the federal government is, has had to make budget choices.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that the first PMO in the FY 2001 Budget is to use performance information to improve program management and make better budget decisions.
To make the budget balance in a decade, the level of cuts will have to be extreme.
To make up for the larger monthly payment of a 15-year mortgage, we had to make some budget cuts.
All this, even as we make difficult budget decisions while keeping our military the finest fighting force in the world.
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As a CEO, I well understand what it means to make strategic budget cuts while increasing revenue and paying off debt.
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The summer usually brings a pause to the eurozone crisis, although last year Italy was scrambling to find savings to make its budget more convincing.
But a prolonged period of sluggish economic growth could rapidly make the budget numbers even worse, if tax receipts fall and government spending rises further.
Greece is heading toward new elections next month, with polls suggesting a narrow victory for a radical leftist party that wants to tear up an international loan agreement which forced the government to make deep budget cuts.
This is about -- without getting into campaign strategy -- this is about very serious issues of public policy, very serious matters about the choices we make and budget priorities, and we were just talking about one of them.
While Scotland's public spending levels at present would require all of the oil revenues it can expect from oil, and still leaves a significant government deficit, there is a warning that an independent Scottish government should make cautious budget assumptions about oil revenues when they are so volatile.
EU's current arcane budget rules, although members make payments to the budget which are broadly in line with their relative wealth, their receipts depend to a large extent on how productive their farmers are.
Like Jose Serra, the health minister, his task is now to make a smaller budget go further.
Such booming economic growth would produce surging revenues that would make balancing the budget so much more feasible.
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U.S. investors do not have some exorbitant skill that would make our international budget constraint any less binding.
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However, voting was stalled over a 30-hour weekend session as the legislature mulled over 26 pieces of legislation that make up the budget package.
Under an interim constitutional declaration, the military council retains the power to make laws and budget decisions until a new constitution is written and a new parliament elected.
Mr Espiritu had a deft touch in the bond markets: last year, the country's nimble fund-raising efforts allowed it to make good its budget shortfall at impressively low interest rates.
Under an interim constitutional declaration, the military council said it retains the power to make laws and budget decisions until a new constitution is written and a new parliament is elected.
The Welsh government said the majority of funding it provided to local government in Wales was not ring fenced and it was up to each authority to make its own budget decisions.
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The position of the American economy as the leader in information technologies combined with the investments in the American defence budget make it very unlikely that the United States will lose this lead.
At the time, this was considered a victory for the highway lobby, since Congress had been allowing unspent money to accumulate in the Trust Fund to make the federal budget deficit look smaller.
Mr Hollande must make some hard budget choices.
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But Spain is in the midst of a deep crisis, with 26% unemployment, nearly 6 million Spaniards out of work, and the government applying austerity cuts and tax increases to make up for budget shortfalls.
Under an interim constitutional declaration released Monday by the military council, the military council retains the power to make laws and budget decisions for the country until a new constitution can be written and a new parliament elected.
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