How to Use budget surplus in a Sentence

budget surplus

noun
  • Last year, Texas’s budget surplus was higher than the entire outlays of many states.
    — Scott Feuless, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Last year, Texas’s budget surplus was higher than the entire outlays of many states.
    — Scott Feuless, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The average rebate amount varied from year to year, in proportion to the size of the state’s budget surplus.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Virginia Democrats would be unwise to jack up income taxes despite a budget surplus.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Georgia’s budget surplus becomes a defining contrast in the governor’s race.
    — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Lyerly said the plaintiffs will continue the lawsuit regardless of whether the budget surplus is distributed to schools.
    — Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The financial crisis comes even as the state of Georgia reports a historic $14 billion budget surplus.
    — CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Under current law, Iowa would fill half that gap with money from the Taxpayer Relief Fund and half from its budget surplus.
    — Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Tim Walz burned through an $18 billion budget surplus, raised taxes by $10 billion, and allowed massive fraud to run rampant in his own agencies.
    — Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 20 Aug. 2025
  • These ultra-austerity policies helped Argentina to post a budget surplus in 2024 for the first time in fourteen years.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Miami Beach is set to distribute $500 checks to homeowners from a budget surplus, but renters are not included in the initiative.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 30 Dec. 2025
  • In 2000, the federal government had a budget surplus of about $236,241.
    — Mike Patton, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In his second term, Walz worked with Democratic majorities in both legislative chambers to chart a more liberal course in state government, aided by a huge budget surplus.
    — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Duncan touted a proposal to tap Georgia’s budget surplus to expand health care access and address housing affordability.
    — Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • As Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan prepares to leave his post, the three-term mayor announced Tuesday that the city will have a $105 million budget surplus.
    — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The government succeeded in reversing the fiscal deficit and achieving a budget surplus — a rare result in Argentina’s recent history — but the social cost of the austerity measures has drawn criticism.
    — Clara Preve, Fortune, 16 May 2026
  • Currently, if state expenses exceed state revenues, Iowa can pull 50% of the difference from the Taxpayer Relief Fund and take the remainder from its budget surplus.
    — Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Today there is no budget surplus to work with, unlike Ventura’s experience in 1999 and Bush’s experience in 2001.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Federal spending of $93 billion in 1945 collapsed to $30 million in 1948, producing an ample budget surplus that year.
    — Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Investors fear Milei will fail to secure enough congressional seats in October’s legislative election to deliver on his anti-austerity agenda, which has sparked economic growth and led to the first budget surplus in decades, though spending cuts have angered many.
    — semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Investors fear Milei will fail to secure enough congressional seats in October’s legislative election to deliver on his anti-austerity agenda, which has sparked economic growth and led to the first budget surplus in decades, though spending cuts have angered many.
    — Claire Cameron, semafor.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Investors fear Milei will fail to secure enough congressional seats in October’s legislative election to deliver on his anti-austerity agenda, which has sparked economic growth and led to the first budget surplus in decades, though spending cuts have angered many.
    — semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The new framework agreement to fund renovations at the city’s 25-year-old sports, concert and convention venue relies heavily on state support, at a time when the state enjoys a budget surplus that could easily disappear in light of federal funding cuts and other uncertainty in the economy.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Coolidge dramatically lowered Taxes, slashed Federal spending, 1maintained high Tariffs, cut the National Debt, vetoed large spending bills, and even ran a Federal budget surplus.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • The administration’s 2022 revenue projection error of $165 billion over four years led to Newsom declaring a $98 billion budget surplus and a sharp increase in spending, especially on social services.
    — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The administration’s 2022 revenue projection error of $165 billion over four years led to Newsom declaring a $98 billion budget surplus and a sharp increase in spending, especially on social services.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Reductions in Saudi’s oil exports, because of the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, follows years of lower oil prices and growing budget deficits in the kingdom—since 2013, Riyadh has reported one budget surplus when oil prices passed $100 a barrel in 2022.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 23 June 2026
  • In what is scheduled to be his final press conference as mayor, Duggan on Tuesday recapped the city's 2024-25 fiscal year and the city's budget surplus, which has grown from $60 million projected in September to more than $105 million, and explained what steps led to the large surplus.
    — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025

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