'basic spending' is correct and can be used in written English.
For example: "I tried to stick to my budget by limiting my basic spending to necessities only."
On Thursday, Congress passed a 2018 budget resolution laying out basic spending priorities for the fiscal year.
Gohmert said his decision was motivated by his and his colleagues' frustration with Boehner's willingness to reach agreements with Democrats on basic spending legislation.
Tying extraneous measures like abortion and funding for environmental protection to the basic spending bill may energize the conservative base while turning off swing voters, they say.
The deterioration in the public finances was underlined by the squeeze on basic spending on key benefits, such as pension credit and child tax credit.
Here, you would figure out your basic spending needs each year, and buy TIPS with varying terms so that the bonds mature over time, as you need the money.
A budget is a chance to get Democrats on record voting for things than can then be used against them in campaign commercials: your basic spending increases and tax hikes, of course, but also a million other little things that can be pulled out and portrayed as discrete votes in favor of some particularly egregious bit of pork.
At the basic level, Shoeboxed allows users to organize all their e-mail and paper receipts, providing a cut-down accounting style package for those looking for basic spend-tracking as opposed to a full blown accounting program such as Quicken.
Congress today is expected to take the first step toward approving legislation that will authorize the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to spend $633 billion in 2013 and keep the Pentagon's basic research spending essentially flat at $2.1 billion.
According to our surveys, Finnish pupils in basic education spend less than one hour per day doing homework.
Other wastewaters of smaller volumes include basic sediment, spent lubricant, and servicing fluid (representing 0.039% of the total waste fluids from Marcellus shale gas wells according to ref (8)).
The most basic rationale for spending public money at an EU level is that investment can help bring poorer countries up to the level of the European average, even beyond it: just look at Ireland.
