state budget item

基本解释

(There are limits to the number of live rails Mr Ryan is willing to grasp at once: his budget leaves intact the biggest single item in the budget, Social Security, the state pension scheme).
（瑞恩先生欲一次解决问题的数量有限：他的预算方案未触及另外一个最大的项目——社会保障制度，国家养老金方案）。

With debt servicing now the biggest item in the budget after labour and social affairs, with few valuable state assets left to sell, and with the need to respect the toughish debt criteria for countries that have adopted Europe's single currency, the government faces overwhelming pressure to show thrift.
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Yet, though Argentina devotes only a third as much, per citizen, as Chile to military spending, that is still the largest item in its federal budget, a quarter of it, the huge cost of state pensions excluded.
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