Sentence examples for budget number from inspiring English sources

"The budget number is hard and set," Cashman said.

Only twice before, in 1997 and 1998, has the top-line budget number been declassified.

We have a studio offer and we're trying to back into a budget number, like we always have to do, without gutting the piece".

To help "judge priorities and foster accountability" among intelligence agencies, the commission argued that the White House should make public not only the overall budget number, but the top-line figure for each of the 15 intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency and the National Reconnaissance Agency.

Other administration officials said it was possible the White House would endorse the release of the overall budget number, but they said it was less likely that it would follow the commission's recommendation to release budgets for individual agencies because that might disclose too much about the allocation of intelligence resources.

But with the House and the Senate deeply divided over what budget number to use — the House is working off a top line of $967 billion while the Senate budget uses $1.058 trillion — the ability of the chambers to come together to agree on spending bills and avoid a government shutdown seems increasingly elusive.

The budget numbers are the officials' numbers.

To make the budget numbers add up.

Mr. Gulotta insists his budget numbers add up.

Greece might flunk its reforms or its budget numbers.

But more revealing than oratory are budget numbers — like those actually contained in the Ryan budget.