In budgetary terms, the Balkan mission accounts for a small part of Pentagon spending.
Looked at strictly in budgetary terms, these demands are both defensible.
In budgetary terms where total expenditure is $424,000m that is a rounding error.
To put it in budgetary terms, the deficit we imagine comes largely from discretionary spending.
In budgetary terms, it requires a bit of extra money upfront but costs quickly begin to fall.
The package gives some new money for renewables, but in annual budgetary terms that is probably not going to be that much "new" money.
But he gave a very important signal that pensions – and, less importantly in budgetary terms, the aid budget – will be cut after 2020, and the pension triple lock will be broken.
What's at stake in the current struggle is a small amount of money in Washington budgetary terms but a symbolically important application of the Bush administration's management philosophy.
It may well want to run a surplus (both in budgetary terms and on the balance of trade) in order to accumulate the necessary reserves to defend its currency and protect its banks.
Like most mainstream thinkers about the American military, he frames the problems in budgetary terms and tries to address the "funding gap" which is apparently looming over the Pentagon with greater certainty than any comet or asteroid.
