budget hawks
Anti-deficit politicians
Budget hawks are politicians or advocates who prioritize reducing government spending and deficits.
The hawk metaphor suggests vigilant, aggressive pursuit of fiscal restraint: Budget hawks in Congress blocked the spending bill.
The term is neutral but often used by those who view such positions skeptically.
Compare deficit hawks, which emphasizes debt specifically.
- national debtGovernment's accumulated borrowing
- frugalityEconomical resource management
- thriftinessHabit of avoiding waste
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- cutbacksReductions in spending
discretionary spending · fiscal · prudence · deficits · stringency · Tea Party movement · savings · taxpayer dollars · conservative · deficit reduction · fiscal responsibility · spending cuts · sequestration · government shutdown · pork barrel · belt tightening · tighten the purse strings · Paul Ryan
budget hawksbig spenders
Those who spend freely
spendthrifts · Keynesians · appropriators · progressives · expansionists
budget hawksexpansionists
Proponents of territorial enlargement
budget, hawk, budgets, budgeted, budgeting, budgetary, hawks, hawked, hawking