Sentence examples for budget baselines from inspiring English sources

Mr. Biden would love to see Mr. Ryan, a self-described "numbers guy," get lost in the weeds of budget baselines and other details that he sometimes uses to explain this discrepancy.

A knock-down, drag-out battle over budget baselines.

Costs would rise considerably over the current budget baseline in the later years.

If such budget baseline estimate differs from the estimate in the current services budget, the President shall explain the differences.

He's unlikely to get any credit for his previous actions in any new negotiations with Republicans, and even if he did, CBO's scoring would now take into account revenues from these areas in the budget baseline.

"(3) The budget transmitted pursuant to subsection (a) for a fiscal year shall include a budget baseline estimate made in accordance with section 251(a)(6) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and using economic and technical assumptions consistent with the current services budget submitted under section 1109 for the fiscal year.

The budget transmitted pursuant to subsection (a) for such fiscal year shall include the information required by section 251(a)(2) of such Act (other than account-level detail) assuming that the deficit in such budget baseline were the amount estimated by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget on August 25 of the calendar year in which the fiscal year begins.

"(4) Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply with respect to fiscal year 1989 if the budget transmitted for such fiscal year provides for deficit reduction from a budget baseline deficit for such fiscal year (as defined by section 251(a)(6) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and based on laws in effect on January 1 , 1988 equal to or greater than $36,000,000,000.

Even Linden said he would not advocate that Democrats shut down the government if they don't get their preferred budget baseline.

Lawmakers wouldn't even have to find offsetting revenue or spending cuts, because the official budget baseline, from the Congressional Budget Office, anticipates the money (roughly $7 to $8 billion for next year) being spent.

Erskine B. Bowles, President Bill Clinton's former chief of staff, and former Republican Senator Alan K. Simpson have been discussing budgets and baselines in an improbable buddy act.