The phrase "administration deficit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing financial shortfalls or inefficiencies within an administrative body or organization.
Example: "The recent audit revealed a significant administration deficit that needs to be addressed to improve overall efficiency."
Alternatives: "administrative shortfall" or "management deficit".
Over the last eight years, Bush administration deficits raised the national debt by almost $5 trillion.
Viewed from the perspective of challengers seeking office, particularly the large number of conservative, Tea Party candidates, the Fed essentially spent the entire election season telling Americans that it stood ready to buy whatever treasury debt the Obama administration deficits would generate.
Still, the new estimates would lower the administration's deficit forecast for this fiscal year, which began in October, to about $1.3 trillion, from $1.5 trillion.
Under the current administration the deficit reached 5.5% for the rest of the year, driving the annual rate to almost 8.6%.
That is down $329 billion, or 20 percent, from the administration's deficit estimate at the beginning of the year, reflecting higher-than-expected revenue and lower-than expected spending.
The Congressional Budget Office noted that if Mr. Bush wins Congressional approval to make his tax cuts permanent, a top priority for the administration, the deficit would grow by $2 trillion over the next 10 years.
Mr. Daniels said he expected the administration's deficit and surplus projections to be similar to those of the Congressional Budget Office and those developed by analysts within the two parties.
He presides over a radical, reforming administration – think deficit reduction, health reform and the overhaul of welfare – and faces an opposition recovering from arguably its worst ever election defeat.
Here is the latest from the Grand Old Party: After years of eagerly enabling the Bush administration's deficit spending and record debt, Republicans in Congress are dusting off their budget hawk costumes and suddenly demanding fiscal responsibility for the nation.
The policies of the Fed are less productive than hoped, because on the fiscal side, the administration's deficit spending is directed towards income and wealth redistribution, rather than economic growth.Robert Vambery Professor of international business Pace University New York SIR – You did not say much about those who lose out under a central bank's financial repression policies.
