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No dear. A budget is not what we are spending. A budget is a general guideline of what we intend to spend.
An appropriations bill is what Congress authorizes to be spent and while that is guided by the budget it is something entirely separate from the budget. Just because something is included in the budget does not always translate to it being included in an appropriations bill. (That often gives Congress a powerful tool to punish in its critics and/or force somebody to get back into line.)
The deficit is the difference between what is taken in and what is SPENT, not between what is taken in and what is budgeted.
That's parsing words and arguing semantics.
How does this prove that a deficit cannot be 1/3 of what was budgeted? You know, in the budget?