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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Over 10 years this could change the budget scenario in D.C., which can also strengthen the dollar.

这将在超过10年的时期内改变华盛顿的预算方案，这也会加强美元的地位。

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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.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

When journalists asked this morning what room for manoeuvre Labour had to give concessions to the other parties in next years budget the answer came back - none.

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But legislators had anticipated using that money to rebuild state projects after years of budget cuts.

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Worse trouble has been staved off by seven years of budget restraint, large foreign-exchange reserves and a hefty overseas investment portfolio.

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