No one likes to cut a budget, especially when it's his or her own.

"He always feels he can cut a budget a little bit."

To cut a budget deficit that reached a record $1.4 trillion in 2009, defence is the obvious target.

He warned that many state legislators in Connecticut, particularly those recently elected, may have never experienced the process of cutting a budget.

When I put that surtax in, that was at the same time we were cutting a budget by $2 billion.

"Until we got there, there was not a lot of incentive for a law department to cut a budget," Katz says.

When I cut a budget by $2 billion in one month, that's when I was underestimated.

He insists his government will manage to cut a budget deficit that hit 8.9% of GDP last year.

"The best Dole can hope for now is to cut a budget deal and eventually claim he moderated Newt.

Karamanlis has come under criticism over tax hikes to cut a budget deficit and a series of scandals involving ministers.

The bill, which would allow private business into the health insurance system, is a key plank of the government's reform programme aimed at cutting a budget deficit.

But on Friday, the government and three moderate opposition parties cut a budget deal that will provide a bare one-vote majority in the Dutch Senate.

This is a man that understands that you don’t just say, ‘Gee, I wish I could cut a budget.’

Ireland took action after a downgrading in sovereign-debt status and was under pressure from Europe to cut a budget deficit heading for 13% of gross domestic product.

To survive the Ryan plan, Republicans need to cut a budget deal with Obama, writes Jon Chait.

Retailers say consumer enthusiasm has been dampened by the images from Newtown and the threat of higher taxes if Washington fails to cut a budget deal.

As lawmakers scramble to cut a budget deal and avoid defaulting on U.S. debt, the head of a top Chinese rating agency claims it's too late.

Conservatives Urge Boehner to Cut a Budget Deal and Move On

After all, Andrew Cuomo, governor of the state of New York, for example, managed to cut a budget deal this week, which did impose some austerity.

Tea Party activists have been unhappy with Boehner ever since he cut a budget deal with the White House in April to avoid a government shutdown.

Ms. Roberts told the board that she dismissed Mr. Ferreri because she was trying to cut a budget deficit and because he had completed his work.

"Anyone who was elected after 1992 has never really had to cut a budget," Mr. Kitzhaber told the legislators, but this year, there will likely be cuts in social-service and law-enforcement spending.

Republicans however sought to use the stimulus plan as evidence of what they see as a lack of seriousness by Obama on cutting a budget deficit predicted to hit 1.65 trillion dollars this year.

Democrats repeated their long-held skepticism about the feasibility of cutting a budget already afflicted with a built-in deficit by an additional $500 million a year for three years, as the 30 percent cut implies.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's government has proposed tax changes and reducing energy subsidies to cut a budget deficit running at about 11 percent of gross domestic product, Egyptian newspapers reported.