Sentence examples for slash deficit from inspiring English sources

But it's not just Republicans who have embraced a commitment to drastically slash deficit spending.

Mr. Hashimoto battled labor unions to slash deficit-ridden budgets and impose performance requirements on schoolteachers.

Why not slash deficits immediately?

And we also have evidence on what happens when government try to slash deficits in a depressed economy.

A year and a half ago, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain came to office promising to slash deficits and energize economic growth through radical fiscal austerity.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a non-partisan agency, claimed this week that his plan will actually reduce the federal deficit by $16 billion in 2019, and slash deficits over the subsequent decade by half a percent of GDP versus the current trend.

But a Continent-wide agreement to slash deficits and lifelines tossed to European banks have helped reduce borrowing costs, and Washington now seems to be breathing a tentative sigh of relief.

The Republican version of reality goes, briefly, like this: Boehner and Obama shook hands on a far-reaching deal to rewrite the tax code, roll back the cost of entitlements and slash deficits.

Representative Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, has always been a magic-asterisk kind of guy — someone who makes big claims about having a plan to slash deficits but refuses to spell out any of the all-important details.

But unlike House Speaker John Boehner, they suggest they would be open to higher tax rates on wealthy Americans as part of a broader deal to slash deficits.

If the government were dead set on slashing deficits there are vastly better ways of doing it than what has emerged through several years of disaster chicken.