Sentence examples for offset budget from inspiring English sources

The money was partly intended to offset budget cuts that states are making.

Then, depending on the depth of a downturn countries would receive transfers to help them offset budget shortfalls.

The City Council directed Gill to find ways to help offset budget shortfalls, and he reached out to Brown, a board member of the Boys and Girls Club.

But as the city attempts to raise funds to offset budget deficits, is it possible some tax relief programs may be targets?

Smokers in New Jersey and Connecticut are not faring much better, as governments there and elsewhere look to offset budget deficits with higher taxes on tobacco.

Mr. Feldman had become enmeshed in what appears to be a nascent budget-balancing trend in municipal government: police and fire departments have begun to charge accident victims as a way to offset budget cuts.

Senator Tom Coburn, a Republican of Oklahoma, stopped that in its tracks, insisting that any additional benefits be paid for with offsetting budget cuts.

"I don't want to hear about the fact that offsetting budget cuts have to come first before New Jersey citizens are taken care of," Mr. Christie angrily warned.

" Republican Congressional aides said they anticipated that both measures would be extended, and that House and Senate leaders would push for them to be paid for by offsetting budget cuts, rather than adding to the budget deficit.

Before it expired in 2002, the rule forced Congress to "pay for" tax and entitlement-spending changes with offsetting budget fixes, so that any new measure would be deficit-neutral over five and ten years.

Others expressed irritation that the House Republicans had been so outmaneuvered on the shutdown that they were now offering a short-term increase in the debt ceiling without any offsetting budget cuts — a worse deal, however temporary, than they were demanding in the early stages of the budget battle.