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 Japan steps away from defending the yen and thus from buying American bonds, the full weight of the current budget deficits will be felt in us markets for the first time.

如果日本不再维持日元汇率，因而也不再购买美国债券，那美国市场就将首次感受到当前预算赤字带来的全部压力。

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If the global economy could vote, would it have voted for the messy budget compromise that US politicians cobbled together in the first hours of 2013?

BBC: Cliffhanger: Still hanging

In the speech, the president did not change the broad outline of the vision for the US space agency he first expounded in his 2011 federal budget request.

BBC: Obama sets Mars goal for America

The Congressional Budget Office thinks that would send the US straight back into recession in the first half of 2013.

BBC: Gauging the fiscal cliff