Sentence examples for return to deficit from inspiring English sources

And the talk in Washington will return to deficit reduction.

But investors are not interested in a return to deficit spending.

Mr. Fleischer used the numbers to counter Democratic charges that the administration would return to deficit spending this year, not counting the revenue set aside for Social Security.

Speaking at FreeMarkets and at a senior citizens' center here, the senator argued that while Mr. Gore's proposed tax cuts and spending plans fit comfortably within the projected government surpluses of the next decade, Gov. George W. Bush's would mean a return to deficit spending.

If the tax breaks passed last spring are not rolled back, paying for a strong assault on terrorism will require either cuts in other parts of the federal budget or a return to deficit spending -- as soon as next year, according to recent forecasts.

Both Republicans and Democrats have admitted that any economic stimulus plan of this scale will mean a return to deficit spending.

They said that by trying to avoid a direct vote to raise the federal debt ceiling to allow more borrowing, Republicans were trying to escape responsibility for a return to deficits.

A return to deficits by any definition would give Democrats ammunition to attack Republicans heading into the 2002 Congressional elections, and would enable Democrats to charge Republicans with raiding Medicare and Social Security to pay for the tax cut.

To construct a surplus estimate just to allow for the bigger tax cut that Republicans want, he told the House Budget Committee, would risk a return to deficits and imperil efforts to assure Social Security's solvency.

"The increases for defense, international affairs and homeland security have been much greater -- and thus have played a much larger role in the return to deficits -- than the increases for domestic appropriations," Mr. Kogan said.

He has predicted a return to deficits by the mid-2020s simply on the basis of ringfencing the state pension system and health service, which increasingly serves patients who are over 65.