balance the budget

基本解释

It does, however, increase the pressure to balance the budget.
然而，它确实增加了平衡预算的压力。
My opponent’s plan is nothing but smoke and mirrors: he’s simply pulled his numbers out of the air to make it look like he can balance the budget without new taxes.
他说：我那竞选对手的计划根本就是一个骗局。他只是毫无根据地提出几个数字，让人们觉得好像他可以不增加新的税收就平衡预算。
One reason why US unemployment remained so high in the New Deal period is that a premature monetary tightening and attempt to balance the budget aggravated a new recession in 1937.
在（罗斯福）“新政”时期美国失业率仍如此高的一个原因是，过早的货币政策紧缩和试图平衡预算，加重了1937年新的衰退的影响。

Nothing is free. So,the reason I make that point is, you cannot ask local elected officials to raise teacher salaries and cut taxes and balance the budget and increase roads.
"Now of course the Chinese are beginning to lecture us, about how we need to balance our budget, and preserve the value of the dollar and avoid inflation.
"If there was a hall of fame for budget directors,then Jack Lew surely would have earned a place for his service in that role under President Clinton, when he helped balance the federal budget after years of deficits."

Close to a majority say we will not be able to balance the budget anytime soon.
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