US Senate has passed a landmark bill aimed at ending the country's huge budget deficits within the next seven years.

美国参议院通过了一项具有里程碑意义的法案，旨在在未来7年内结束该国巨额预算赤字。

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In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires—nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.

2015年，美国林务局首次使用55亿美元年度预算的一半以上用于灭火——这几乎是20年前火灾支出所占比例的两倍。

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If the Dreamliner starts rolling off the production line towards the end of this year, as Boeing promises, it will be billions over budget and three years behind schedule.

如果梦幻客机在今年年底开始投入生产线，就像波音承诺的那样，将会超过预算数十亿美元，而且比计划晚三年时间完成。

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But Congress has put more into the budget of the national park system in the past three years.

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Before becoming President Bush's White House Chief of Staff, he was President Bush's Director of the Office of Management and Budget for 3 years.

在成为布什总统的,白宫办公厅主任之前，他是布什总统的,白宫管理与预算办公室主任,任期三年。

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The changes are expected to cost about nine hundred forty billion dollars over ten years, but also help reduce the federal budget deficit.

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Those of us who lived through those budget years are hardly nostalgic.

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They point to the tax-raising budget in 2002 that followed the giveaways in his pre-election budget four years ago.

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The White House and many Democrats have been calling for a slowdown in the growth of the Pentagon budget for years.

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