Obama wants to halve budget deficit
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:58 am
Posted/Updated: 5:06 p.m. CT, Sat., Feb. 21, 2009
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama wants to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term, mostly by scaling back Iraq war spending, raising taxes on the wealthiest and streamlining government, an administration official said Saturday as the president worked to finalize his first budget request.
Obama's proposal for the 2010 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 projects that the estimated $1.3 trillion deficit he has inherited from former President George W. Bush will be halved to $533 billion by 2013.
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