The phrase "austerity legislation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing laws or policies aimed at reducing government spending and budget deficits, often during economic downturns.
Example: "The government introduced austerity legislation to address the rising national debt and stabilize the economy."
Alternatives: "budget-cutting measures" or "fiscal restraint laws".
That legislation includes further austerity measure, including income tax hikes, and increases in sales tax.
But the two parties would have to rely on Mr. Wilders to get important legislation through, including austerity cuts expected to total about 18 billion, or $24 billion.
But the two parties would have to rely on Mr. Wilders to get important legislation through, including austerity cuts expected to total about $24 billion.
He said his energies in the seven weeks before the election would be focused on passing the legislation authorizing the austerity measures promised to Ireland's international lenders.
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House this week will lay bare the choice between social programs and Pentagon spending in an age of austerity when it takes up legislation to slice $261 billion from food stamps, Medicaid, social services and other programs for struggling Americans over the next decade to stave off more than $50 billion in military spending cuts scheduled to take effect next year.
The funding challenges surrounding the 30 hours of free childcare, for example, are a reminder that the spectre of austerity still looms above all the legislation that this Conservative government can bring forward.
A bigger test will come when Greek politicians vote on contentious legislation to enact yet more austerity measures and structural reforms.
Education funding changes don't require primary legislation, and of the anti-austerity parties only the Greens have a specific commitment to restore funding to 2010 levels in real terms.
Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said the parties had agreed to set this Saturday as a deadline for passing legislation required to implement a $25 billion package of austerity measures needed to secure a $114 billion international bailout for the country's battered economy.
Republican leaders in Congress have used the debt ceiling debate as a way to try to enforce fiscal austerity, saying they will not vote to raise it unless the legislation comes with measures aimed at reducing the deficit.
