Adopting the debt break as the highest fiscal rule for the Swiss federal budget has ended the long legalization process surrounding the federal budget management. The debt break guarantees a passive-anticyclic budget policy by allowing discretionary measures during extraordinary circumstances. Through its standards in law and regulation, it binds the financial management to a supervisory fiscal rule. Furthermore, the Swiss federal debt break served as a model for the German federal debt break. It also functions as an addition to the various cantonal fiscal rules. While the German Federal Constitutional Court is able or even obliged to check whether each and every proposal is compliant with the debt break, the Swiss equivalent lacks any possibility for legal review. The cantonal budget laws, too, lack any judicial protection. To ensure that supervisory fiscal rules are enforced, financial policy actors can choose to follow the implementation laws. Also, the implementation of such is supervised by financial control authorities and independent control mechanisms within the budget laws. These enforcement mechanisms are supported by the principles of budget management that are valid throughout the entire budget and accounting process. Comparing the enforceability of the Swiss federal budget with its cantonal equivalents as well as the German federal debt break leads to the question whether the Swiss rules are sufficiently actionable. For the Swiss federal budget, the possibilities for legal enforcement or even individual legal protection are indeed only indirect and very limited. Still, expanding legal measures for enforcing standards under the current financial legislation would be alien to the system and cannot be accomplished without additional friction between their enforcement and other financial laws and policies. In addition to simply expanding enforcement capabilities, it is worth considering and evaluating alternatives. It is especially recommended to continuously examine whether current budget laws are compatible with and suitable for achieving a medium- to long-term budget balance.