Sentence examples for this first budget from inspiring English sources

Those Republicans were looking like they could vote against this first budget resolution in significant numbers on Wednesday, but leaders seem to have quelled that rebellion for now.

But Republicans know any legislation of this magnitude requires agreement at the top levels of the House, Senate and the White House, and some lawmakers are looking to use leadership's need for votes on this first budget resolution as a way to extract concessions.

There is no question that there is a political game going on now and voters should be outraged by this fifth budget showdown in two years.

This is the first budget conference since 2010: in the intervening years there seemed no point in holding one as the two sides were so far apart.

This is the first budget in which the Scottish Finance Secretary has been able to decide tax rates.

And I don't know if you were aware, but I just learned this is the first budget out of a divided Congress, with the House [under a] different [party], since 1986.

"And look, this country is in a fundamentally stronger situation than it was when I came on this show before the first budget I delivered in this parliament".

This would deliver the first budget surplus for 18 years and would represent one of the largest deficit reductions among advanced economies in the post-war period," the OBR said, summarising its new paper Crisis and Consolidation in the Public Finances.

In the first budget of this parliament, the chancellor, George Osborne, restricted pay rises in the public sector to 1% for the next four years – a move that will affect teachers' salaries.

Because of the looming deadline, this is going to be the first budget battle fought.

It was the first budget veto since at least the 1920s.