Timing the budget’s release for just after the G-7 made for a harmonious London meeting in which both Americans and Europeans could claim that the US was taking care of business—that is, its twin fiscal and current-account deficits.
把预算削减计划公布的时间就定在7国集团会议之后有助于伦敦会议能和谐一致地举行。通过此会议，美国和欧洲可以一致宣称美国正在着手解决它的“双赤字”——财政赤字和经常项目赤字。