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The Budget: Ten-penny plan
削減預(yù)算：十便士的規(guī)劃
The White House proposes eye watering budget cuts
白宮提出了眼淚汪汪的預(yù)算縮減
During his campaign for the White House, Donald Trump touted a “penny plan” for government spending.
唐納德·特朗普在競選中的美國總統(tǒng)時(shí)，吹捧對于政府開支實(shí)行“便士”計(jì)劃。
This meant cutting the part of the budget that funds day-to-day operations—ie, excluding Social Security, health care, debt interest or defence—by 1% a year.
這意味著削減維持日常運(yùn)營的預(yù)算，也就是社會保障，醫(yī)療保健，債務(wù)利息或國防等，每年1%。
Critics said such cuts were unachievable.
批評者說，這些削減是無法實(shí)現(xiàn)的。
Department budgets are already beneath their historical average as a share of the economy.
部門預(yù)算作為經(jīng)濟(jì)的一部分已經(jīng)低于其歷史平均水平。
They would have to shrink by nearly a third over a decade, after accounting for inflation, to satisfy the penny plan.
他們將不得不在經(jīng)通脹因素調(diào)整后，用十多年來將預(yù)算緊縮近三分之一，以滿足“便士計(jì)劃”。
That has not deterred Mr Trump.
這并不能夠阻擋特朗普先生。
On February 27th the White House announced its headline budget numbers, ahead of a more detailed plan due to appear soon.
2月27日，白宮公布了其整體預(yù)算數(shù)字，先于一項(xiàng)即將出現(xiàn)的更具體的規(guī)劃。
In his first year in office, Mr Trump is proposing to cut so-called “non-defence discretionary” spending not by 1%, but by more than 10%, relative to current law.
在特朗普先生就職的第一年，他提議縮減所謂的非國防開支數(shù)額，不是現(xiàn)行法律規(guī)定的1%，而是超過了10%。
The $54bn (0.3% of GDP) this would free up would flow to the defence budget.
這項(xiàng)540億美元（國內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值的0.3%）的縮減將流向國防預(yù)算。
Cue incredulity. The part of the budget Mr Trump would cut, which funds things like education, housing and national parks, has already fallen by over 10% in real terms since 2010.
令人難以接受的是，川普削減的開支部分涵蓋教育，住房，國家公園，這幾部分的預(yù)算自2010年起，下調(diào)幅度已經(jīng)超過了10%。
Strict spending limits in the Budget Control Act of 2011, sometimes called the “sequester”, caused the dive.
在2011年的預(yù)算控制法案中對預(yù)算開支進(jìn)行了嚴(yán)格的限制，有時(shí)也稱為“縮減”，造成了驟降。
譯文來源考研英語時(shí)事閱讀
