budget gap

基本解釋

By those standards, they should be chastened by the budget gap and the high unemployment rate.
按這些標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，他們應(yīng)該受到預(yù)算缺口和高失業(yè)率的考驗(yàn)。
Texas will be able to close its budget gap this year only through brutal cuts, now being negotiated.
德州今年只能通過(guò)大幅削減來(lái)彌補(bǔ)預(yù)算缺口了，這些削減眼下已在協(xié)商當(dāng)中。
One of their odder arguments is that, since the teachers’ pay freeze will not plug the entire budget gap, it should not happen at all.
論據(jù)之一是，即使凍結(jié)教師們的工資也不會(huì)堵住整個(gè)預(yù)算的缺口，并且這項(xiàng)決議根本就不該被提出來(lái)。

But in Oakland, California it's a huge budget gap that has to be closed.
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Runaway health care entitlement costs are the prime driver of our long term budget gap.
FORBES: On Medicare, the American Public Is Dangerously Out of Touch with Reality
Over 75% of projected the long-term budget gap is caused by escalating interest costs on debt.
FORBES: The Spending Must Stop