"I think when it comes down to questions of hard cash and state budget, the European governments will feel they are doing what they can and it is not really up to the United States to tell them what to do,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Even in peacetime, military expenditures take up almost half of the budget of any European state, and in times of war, eighty percent.

即使在和平时期,欧洲任一国家的军费开支,也几乎占据了其预算的一半,在战时,更是达到了80%

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On Tuesday,Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new budget to solve his state's deficit.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

Almost every state requires a balanced budget.

VOA: special.2011.03.04

Some Republicans disagree. In his party's response, Governor Haley Barbour of the southern state of Mississippi calls the president's budget "a spending spree."

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

Rick Freedman, head of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Miami, says budget cuts could also wind up costing the state more money.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

The Deputy Secretary of State had been budget director under former President Bill Clinton.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

In this week's Republican address, the governor of the state of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty,said the federal budget President Obama proposed for the 2010 year does not provide the tax relief he promised.

VOA: standard.2009.04.11