The federal budget could be pushed further into the red with up to a billion dollars of proposed spending cuts and revenue-raising measures due to start on or soon after July 1 facing delays.
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A week after his first budget, Treasurer Joe Hockey lashed Labor for blocking up to $40 billion in savings and warned the Australian economy could ''fall apart''.
But at least 15 measures requiring legislation have not even been introduced to Parliament.
The measures face an uncertain future, with the current Labor-Greens-controlled Senate vowing to block some key savings - which are increasingly likely to not even come to a vote before July 1 - and the Palmer United Party threatening to play hard ball over measures such as the so-called ''petrol tax'' when it takes a large share of the balance of power after July 1.
The measures include the restart in petrol indexation, due to begin on August 1 and raise an estimated $167.5 million in 2014-15; a two-year pause in Family Tax Benefit payments saving $397.3 million in 2014-15 and a $95.8 million pause in the indexation of local government grants.
Other savings on hold include a pause in government payments projected to save $160.9 million in 2014-15, $49.3 million in scholarship assistance for students moving between major cities, and an $18 million saving from axing the Rudd government's First Home Saver Account scheme.
