As Stan Collender, a noted observer of the US federal budget, has commented, No one with federal budget responsibilities actually seems to be interested in the budget.

A federal budget that achieves primary balance has federal revenues equaling spending but with a remaining budget deficit as a result of interest payments on past debt.

First and foremost, Europe has not established a federal budget.

The percentage of federal budget that NASA has been allocated has been steadily dropping since the Apollo program and in 2012 it was estimated at 0.48 of the federal budget.

Budget NASA's budget has generally been approximately 1 of the federal budget from the early 1970s on, but briefly peaked to approximately 4.41 in 1966 during the Apollo program.

The federal mandatory spending proposed for Guam in the 2006 fiscal year budget is 131 million.

As for Germany, the 2010 federal budget features a record high deficit of well above 50 billion.

Economically, therefore, the federal budget cushions regional shocks automatically through discretionary action and stabilizing transfers to the states.

Meanwhile, faced with a large federal budget deficit, many American voters would welcome reduced spending on nuclear weapons.

Yes, the US needs tax increases to move the federal budget into surplus and policies to boost private savings.

GLONASS is the most expensive program of the Russian Federal Space Agency, consuming a third of its budget in 2010.

As part of America s system of checks and balances, Congress gets to do more than just approve the annual federal budget.

An even bigger question mark hovers over what might be the greatest national security concern of all the federal budget deficit.

These functions of government, and a federal budget of this size, would, of course, require the equivalent of a finance minister.

About 1 trillion rubles ( 42.7 billion) is to be allocated from the federal budget to nuclear power and industry development before 2015.

The low sensitivity of both federal expenditure and federal revenues to local business cycle conditions explains why only a small fraction (estimated at about 10 15 ) of any shock to the GDP of any individual state is absorbed via automatic transfers to and from the US federal budget.

In short, they want to ensure that the spending explosion is indeed temporary, not entrenched in a new baseline for the federal budget.

Based on the tremendous scale of our obligations we are increasing financing in the national budget for the federal chemical weapons destruction programme.

Assuming a flat rate of national contributions to the federal budget, Greece, for example, would shed 2 3 precious percentage points from its public deficit.

For example, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget performed an admirable service in scoring the fiscal plans of rival candidates for the Republican nomination.

The federal government s budget deficits were financed through foreign and domestic borrowing, and by printing money, which led to inflation and depreciation of the new currency.

Today, that consensus is unraveling as America s politicians wrestle with a federal budget that is itself turning into a long war one with its own casualties.

Interest payments, which consume more than 10 of Germany s federal budget, will grow along with the mounting debt burden and even faster if interest rates rise.

New York s government and people do not protest because Mississippi receives far more from the federal budget, relative to what it contributes, than New Yorkers do.

Indeed, given that oil and gas revenues account for half of Russia s federal budget, adapting to new realities is virtually an existential imperative for the Russian state.

Economically, therefore, the federal budget cushions regional shocks automatically through discretionary action and stabilizing transfers to the states. Politically, it embodies solidarity and thus helps cement the union.

In places like rural El Paso County, on the eastern plains of Colorado, far from the federal budget debate s epicenter, spending cuts are the order of the day.

America should aim to return to the tax rates of the mid 1990 s, when the economy was booming and the federal budget was in much better shape.

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So the structure established by the August 2 law concentrates deficit reduction on the discretionary non defense part of the federal budget, which is only about 10 of it.

Romney s budget plan would also make the federal tax and transfer system considerably less progressive, thereby worsening income inequality, which is already at its highest level since the Great Depression.

From quantitative easing to record high federal budget deficits to unprecedented bailouts, they have done everything in their power to mask the pain of balance sheet repair and structural adjustment.

All of the spending cuts come from the discretionary part of the federal budget, which excludes Social Security, Medicare, the Medicaid program for the poor, and interest on the national debt.

The budget of Guam comprises revenues received by the Government of Guam and federal contributions generally, allocated to particular sectors through the Department of the Interior on an ad hoc basis.

That leaves only about one third of total federal spending from which to cut, and much of that goes to the defense budget, which Republicans will attempt to protect in the future.

Obama s federal budget establishes a target of 14 reductions from 2005 levels by 2020, with an 83 cut by 2050 (the administration has properly chosen 2005, rather than 1990, as a baseline.)

Over the last two years more than 850 million roubles from the federal budget have been spent in implementing the measures provided under this programme and its subprogrammes in the Russian Federation.

In the first draft, Governor Turnbull asked for 88 million in federal financial assistance for the next five years. In exchange, the Territory would be committed to, inter alia, a balanced budget.

Austria became a federal, parliamentary, democratic republic through the Federal Constitution of 1920.

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For example, in the United States, the 2010 federal budget invested 330 million to increase the number of doctors, nurses, and dentists practicing in areas of the country experiencing shortages of health professionals.

There was no Federal Automobile Board to set the price of vehicles the way the Federal Reserve Board set the price of federal funds.

The first three elements of the American formula for growth cost money, and that money is included in the discretionary non defense part of the federal budget now targeted by the debt ceiling legislation.

Unless and until the US faces up to its chronic aversion to saving namely, by reducing massive federal budget deficits and encouraging the rebuilding of severely depleted household saving multilateral trade deficits will persist.