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Showing posts with label Budget. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

President Obama's Budget Deficit Problem

The US FY 2011 budget (published early 2010) was the first budget assembled by the Obama administration.  It was based on data available in the fall of 2009. 

TARP (approximately $700 billion, initially targeted at bank bailouts), had been passed by a Democratic Congress, and signed into law by President Bush in late 2008.  The incoming Obama administration agreed with TARP.