But the leadership faces a severe economic constraint: the budget has breached the 3% EU deficit ceiling.

但是领导面对一个严格的经济限制：预算已经超出了3%的欧盟赤字限制。

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If Congress imposes a hard budget constraint on itself by refusing to raise the debt ceiling and establishes Social Security and interest on the debt as priority must-pays out of revenues before any other programs may be funded, it would require total other, non-priority spending to be reduced not quite one-third on average during the next ten years.

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