off-budget

[awf-buhj-it, of-]

adjective

U.S. Government.

1. not included in the regular federal budget; funded through separate agencies.

Example Sentences

Earlier this year, government and opposition parties linked up in Parliament to create off-budget funds worth more than a trillion dollars to be spent on the military and on infrastructure over the next decade, the biggest military ramp-up in Europe in decades.

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The EU budget can’t be used to buy arms, under current expert interpretations of the bloc’s treaties, but the special fund — known as the European Peace Facility — runs off-budget and doesn’t have to respect the same legal standards or be approved by the European Parliament.

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Since then, further crises have piled up, forcing it to resort ever more to off-budget funds, even as debt has become more expensive with interest rates rising.

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Others have proposed solutions that do not involve touching the brake, such as creating a new off-budget fund written into the constitution, like the special fund to upgrade the military established after Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year, to focus on investment.

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The increase would be 8% when including an additional $1.3 billion in new proposed spending through off-budget accounts.

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