The enacted budget contained $2.469 trillion in receipts and $3.796 trillion in outlays, for a deficit of $1.327 trillion.
Reporters were locked up there all day, examining the federal budget until they were allowed to leave once it was tabled in the House of Commons at 4 p.m. Since the budget contained little in the way of headline-grabbing surprises, some were left with enough free time to gather around a large-screen TV to watch the latest hockey news on NHL trade deadline day.
The budget contained the latest in a series of tax changes on the bank sector.
His sudden change of heart says much about the new zeal for spending cuts in Washington following the Republican triumph in the mid-term elections earlier this month, and about the clout of the tea-party activists at the forefront of the party's renaissance.Last year's budget contained some $16 billion in earmarks, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a watchdog group.
In releasing details of their budget agreement, council members said the budget contained at least $76 million in additional spending beyond the $215 million figure that the mayor's staff circulated Monday evening.
Obama's February budget "contained hundreds of billions in spending cuts -- including cuts to Medicare".
One theory holds that the fight over the automatic budget cuts contained in sequestration hurt Mr. Obama.
A day doesn't go by that a group of pundits doesn't gather on a news show to hold forth about the automatic budget cuts contained in the so-called "sequester".
Barack Obama's recently-announced budget, containing $478 billion in highway funds, would go a long way toward plugging this gap.
And despite the enormous fiscal pressure the state faces, the budget contains $170 million in financing for pet projects — an amount unchanged from last year — suggesting that Albany's appetite for with what critics call pork-barrel spending appeared to be undiminished.
