'block budget' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a budget where money is allocated into certain blocks or categories rather than a more flexible approach. For example, "The company adopted a block budget to control costs more easily."
Opposition leaders are threatening to block budget votes in parliament and civic groups have launched a legal challenge.
Oooooh.. 5.25am BST It would appear the government's tactic in Question Time today is to compare Labor's past positions on some policies with their current efforts to block budget measures.
Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey both issued warnings on Tuesday that Bill Shorten could cost Australia its AAA credit rating if Labor joined with minority parties to block budget measures in the Senate.
Dave Collins, Connecticut conservatives suing to block budget, Businessweek, May 6 , 2011
"The SNP is not going to Westminster to seek to block budgets and bring down governments.
She stated: "The SNP is not going to Westminster to seek to block budgets and bring down governments.
"I know how to block budgets". Jones-Sawyer promised to use that savvy to press the governor's bureaucrats for a larger, more realistic savings figure to be distributed under Proposition 47.
The prime minister, Tony Abbott, has repeatedly criticised Labor for blocking budget cuts and demanded it spell out alternatives.
Turnbull listed Fair Work Act changes to protect the Country Fire Authority, passing bills to create two watchdogs for unions, passing the blocked budget measures, and holding a plebiscite on same-sex marriage as priorities.
Standard & Poor's ratings agency has contradicted the prime minister and treasurer's claims that the opposition will put the country's AAA credit rating at risk by blocking budget measures in the Senate.
'I don't think there's sufficient will right now to start blocking budgets when we don't even know what's going to happen or how long it's going to take,' Senate Majority Jim Hendren said after the votes". More than 300,000 people are on Arkansas' hybrid program, which uses Medicaid funds to purchase private insurance for low-income residents.
