Traduction de «finance produced a budget which in essence had $130 » (Anglais → Français) :

The Minister of Finance produced a budget which in essence had $130 billion worth of taxpayers' money that was to be allocated, yet in his comments he referred to the fact that there was no area in which there could have been cuts to government spending.
Le ministre des Finances a produit un budget prévoyant essentiellement l'affectation d'un montant de 130 milliards de dollars de recettes fiscales.

Those in essence were the two ledgers with which the Minister of Finance and Parliament has had to come to grips in the budget.
Ce sont là en substance les deux aspects que le ministre des Finances et, bien sûr, le Parlement ont dû prendre en compte dans ce budget et que, à mon avis, ils devront examiner pendant la durée de la présente législature et le mandat du gouvernement.