The phrase "austere plan" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a plan that is simple, strict, or lacking in luxury or adornment.
Example: "The committee proposed an austere plan to reduce the budget, focusing only on essential expenditures."
Alternatives: "minimalist plan" or "strict plan".
Mr. Ryan, of Wisconsin, on the other hand, is the author of a radically austere plan to scale back federal spending, and he is about to become chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Although the backup budget was originally envisioned as an austere plan that would force all sides to negotiate a deal, politicians and the health care lobby are now worried that the backup budget would be too severe.
The fact is as a result of a tough austere plan, which is George Osborne's, we are able to borrow a lot more cheaply in the world markets than any other European countries.
In reality, both sides have less room for manoeuvre than they claim, and Osborne's austere plan A morphed long ago into a version of Alistair Darling's gentler deficit-cutting timetable we call plan B – which is why the economy has picked up better than feared.
The governor used today's veto message to attack the Legislature for failing to pass the $90.8 billion budget he unveiled in January, an austere plan that holds spending flat but still cuts more than $1 billion each from education and health care.
The projected deficit led Mr. Gulotta, a Republican, to form an austere recovery plan last week that calls for a mix of budget cuts and fee increases.
But that did not go far enough for Mr. Garrett, who is the architect of an even more austere budget plan that he brought to the House floor last week, with the considerable support of conservative colleagues.
Legislative leaders met with Gov. George E. Pataki early today and made some minor progress toward an accord on a supplemental budget that would patch the holes in the austere spending plan passed two weeks ago.
The leaders of the State Assembly and Senate announced today that they would move to break the four-month deadlock over the state budget by passing an austere spending plan next week that is far smaller than the one Gov. George E. Pataki has proposed.
Representative Hal Rogers, the Kentucky Republican who leads the Appropriations Committee, issued an unusual broadside after the bill was pulled, saying it was now clear that the House could not pass spending bills that complied with overall financing levels set in its own austere budget plan.
In a proposal meant to counter the austere spending plan of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, suggested cutting spending by at least 5 percent in areas like data processing and legal services, for which the city often relies on private businesses.
