Structural Budget Deficit in the United States

Structural/Standardized Budget Surplus/Deficit (Economics Term) in the Federal Budget Process

Meaning of Structural Budget Deficit in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): A concept adjusting the surplus/deficit for the effects of the business cycle and other temporary factors such as sales and spectrum auctions.

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See Also

• Federal Appropriations
• Entries about the United States Budget Process in the Encyclopedia (including Structural Budget Deficit)
• Public Debt

Further Reading

• Legislatures and the budget process: the myth of fiscal control

  (J Wehner, 2010)

• Reconcilable Differences?: Congress, the Budget Process, and the Deficit (JB Gilmour, 1990)
• Fiscal institutions and fiscal performance

  (JM Poterba, J von Hagen, 2008)