The phrase "budget mess" refers to a situation or condition where the budget, which is a plan for managing money, is in disarray or disorder. It implies that there are problems, difficulties, or complications with financial planning and allocation.
Sentences with «budget mess»
(Personally, I think he just wanted a chance to weigh in on the current budget mess without really looking like he was doing so in an overt manner. (nystateofpolitics.com)
Any early stumbles would have been magnified, and any poll slippage would have been played up as a potential meltdown, and surely that New York budget mess wouldn't have helped. (politico.com)
Some people I talk with blame the Red and Green Budget mess of 2005 with its Draconian cuts to the county Department of Public Works. (www2.erie.gov)