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.

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

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

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

The budget deficit, unsurprisingly, ballooned.

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.

The US budget deficit is enormous and unsustainable.

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.

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.

With higher revenues and lower payouts, the budget deficit diminishes.

Reckless populist promises left a gaping 16 of GDP budget deficit.

Who will then fund America s budget deficit and on what terms?

CAMBRIDGE The United States still faces a dangerous fiscal deficit, but one might not know it from the complacency that dominates budget discussions in Washington. Regarded as an urgent problem until recently, the federal deficit is now being placed on the back burner of American politics.

So the budget deficit will persist, and more retrenchment will be required.

The state faces another large budget deficit, yet Governor Jerry Brown s budget this year includes a substantial spending increase.

If there are investors willing to finance U.S. government budget deficit, why wouldn't we find investors willing to finance press freedom deficit?

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

The likelihood that budget deficit and debt targets will be missed is rising.

The US must move to reduce its budget deficit in the medium term.

In addition to the trade and budget deficits, there is a jobs deficit.

Under tremendous strain, Tymoshenko s government succeeded in keeping the budget deficit under control.

Reducing the government budget deficit is a major goal of the current government.

But such low rates do not reflect ordinary market sentiment rather, they stem from the fact that the Federal Reserve is now buying more long term securities than the government is issuing to finance the budget deficit.

In the US, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that President Barack Obama s proposed policies would cause the federal government s fiscal deficit to exceed 5 of GDP in 2019, even after a decade of continuous economic growth.

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.

Growth is endangered, the ruble is weak, and the government budget is in deficit.

In just two years, Greece s budget deficit jumped from 4 of GDP to 13 .

When you cut taxes, you get lower revenue, which means a bigger budget deficit.

The French government has run a budget deficit each year since the early 1970s.

The EU budget leverages investment, allows for economies of scale, and cannot run a deficit.

Last year India's BJP led government introduced legislation mandating sharp reductions in the budget deficit.

At the onset of its crisis, Argentina s budget deficit, public debt, and current account deficit (as a share of GDP) were about 3 , 50 and 2 , respectively.

But Obama s message lost touch with reality when he turned his attention to the budget deficit.

Even after a year of excruciating spending cuts, the budget deficit still exceeds 10 of GDP.

If the government continues on this path, many expect next year s budget deficit to widen further.

At that time, Japan s budget deficit soared after the country s property bubble burst, causing economic stagnation.

But Russia s budget for 2010 is still headed for a serious deficit, owing to high spending.

The US is politically polarized, and must at some point begin to reduce its budget deficit.

Greece s membership in the eurozone was also a principal cause of its current large budget deficit.

This article includes a chart representing revenues, expenditures and resulting deficit or surplus of government budget.

More generally, the national debt of any country grows by the size of its budget deficit or declines by the size of its budget surplus.

The budget deficit is again out of control, and well over the 3 of GDP Maastricht ceiling.

Regarded as an urgent problem until recently, the federal deficit is now being placed on the back burner of American politics.

Ben Bernanke, the US Federal Reserve chairman, once famously pinned the whole US current account deficit on a global savings glut.

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.