CBO Projects $442 Billion Federal Deficit
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WASHINGTON - The federal deficit will swell to a record $422 billion this election year but fall short of even more dire forecasts, Congress' top budget analysts projected Tuesday in a report that became instant fodder for both political parties.    The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the shortfall would shrink to $348 billion next year - still the third worst ever in dollar terms...
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The federal budget deficit would have been 69 percent higher than the $162.8 billion reported two months ago if the government had used the same accounting methods as private companies, the Bush administration reported Monday.
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The federal government, running record budget deficits over the past two years, is projecting that it will have to borrow a record $147 billion in the first three months of 2005, the Treasury Department announced Monday.
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The budget deficit for the current budget year will jump to about $250 billion, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Wednesday, citing the weakening economy
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The Congressional Budget Office is projecting this election-year&#39;s federal deficit will reach a record $422 billion, congressional aides said
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The US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Tuesday released its budgetary and economic forecast, and its predictions were not substantially different from those of the Bush administration.
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The White House will estimate on Wednesday that the U.S. budget deficit for fiscal year 2007 will come in at $205 billion, a drop from last year, U.S. administration officials said.
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The broadest measure of the country&#39;s trade and investment flows registered a record deficit of $164.7 billion in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
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The budget that President Bush will submit to Congress today shows the federal deficit falling in each of the next four years and would produce a $61 billion surplus in 2012, administration officials said. But to get there, Bush is counting on strong economic growth, diminishing costs in the Iraq war and tight domestic spending to offset the cost of his tax cuts....
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The federal agency that insures pension plans said that its deficit, already at the highest in its history, had doubled in its last fiscal year, to $23.3 billion.
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THE Commerce Department reported today that the United States recorded a $US54 billion ($74.55 billion) trade deficit in August, the second highest level on record.
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The federal deficit will swell to a record &#36;422 billion this election year but fall short of even more dire forecasts, Congress' top budget analysts projected Tuesday in a report that became instant fodder for both political parties.
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The U.S. current account deficit  grew to a record $164.71 billion in the third quarter, less  than had been forecast, the Commerce Department said on  Thursday.
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The federal budget deficit will  balloon to $2.29 trillion over the next decade, a worse outlook  than previously forecast according to a new report by  congressional analysts, a congressional source with knowledge  of the numbers said on Tuesday.
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a deficit of $54 billion -- represented a 6.9 percent widening from July&#39;s trade gap of $50.5 billion. The bad news on trade is likely
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Congress' top budget analysts still expect the 2004 federal deficit to set a record, though a smaller one than they and the White House anticipated earlier in this election year.
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Congress is poised to provide $70 billion more for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as it adopts a record $448 billion budget for the Pentagon.