Words similar to budget-cutting

Example sentences for: budget-cutting

How can you use “budget-cutting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Before Bill Clinton starts looking for ways to pay for the new aid to college-bound students he's proposing--or Congress returns to its budget-cutting fervor--both ought to take a refresher course in the perversities and absurdities that abound in our current student-subsidy programs.
So the Maastricht Treaty (the blueprint for European currency union) ensured that the budget-cutting it required would be all pain and no gain.