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The city's rainy-day fund, the savings that cover unexpected spending, had $15 million two years ago and has now all but disappeared.
She added that the surplus would have been more than $700 million if not for $138 million in unexpected spending on Medicaid, prescription drugs, nursing homes and prisons.
By the time they added indirectly related costs for domestic security, foreign aid and airline assistance, the bill had risen to nearly $80 billion -- the largest single supplemental appropriation, as these unexpected spending bills are known, in Congressional history.
The cushy surpluses once projected for the next few years have virtually disappeared, thanks to income-tax cuts, depressed tax revenues and billions in unexpected spending on disaster relief, domestic security and the war in Afghanistan.
But given the other variables in any forecasting model, the percentages are quite small and the differences easily lost amid other factors - whether a different tax take than forecast, or an unexpected spending pressure, such as extreme weather, pandemic or war.
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It appears largely in the form of a £7.5 billion cut in the "annual managed expenditure margin" for the next three years ie, the amount it sets aside to cope with unexpected increases in spending.
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