Sentence examples for were deficit from inspiring English sources

Cory Fritz, a spokesman for House speaker John Boehner, said the party's priorities were deficit reduction and avoiding tax increases.

Mr. Clinton entered the White House as a supporter of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council's stance that the party could not be antibusiness, and his signature economic policies were deficit reduction, trade expansion, tax credits to promote work and tighter restrictions on welfare.

When Barack Obama was president, congressional Republicans were deficit hawks.

The first is deficit reduction.

They are deficit hawks (see second chart).

(That, he said, is deficit reduction).

"The problem is deficit spending".

Environmental injury is deficit spending.

He has accused the government of being "deficit deceivers".

He argued that health-care reform is deficit reduction.

Both Romney and Ryan profess to be deficit hawks.