The phrase "write a budget" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when giving instructions or suggestions for managing finances. Example: "To stay on track with your spending, it is important to write a budget each month and track your expenses carefully."
"I will have to write a budget that can pass," he says.
But the need to pay bills is "separate and apart" from the effort to write a budget.
The final promise was far more daunting: Paul Ryan would write a budget that balanced within ten years.
We could not write a budget that was the same as his given the fact that we had almost two trillion dollars less in revenue".
Orszag was proud that, despite the worsening deficit projections, he had helped to write a budget that broke with Obama's campaign pledges in only three significant ways.
The effort to write a budget has been stalled for months as defense hawks, deficit watchdogs and appropriators have sparred over where to set spending levels.
"But when you're writing a budget you're representing an entire conference, and so you have to get consensus".
They wrote a budget that, according to an estimate from the nonpartisan Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, used $8.8 billion in "one-time money" — money not available for continuing expenses.
They didn't expect the state to bring in enough to keep existing programs and services, and they wrote a budget that fit those expectations.
Writing a budget is an exercise in just those sorts of equivalencies: would this particular dollar be best spent on arts, history, public education, luring companies to Texas, ensuring air safety or keeping a no-new-taxes promise?
The list of things left undone includes ambitious plans, such as immigration and entitlement reform, as well as prosaic ones that are part of the basic function of government, such as writing a budget.
