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FEATURE STORY

Pay-Me-Later Budgeting

With the economy stagnating and an election approaching, Washington will put off difficult budget choices until at least 2011.

by Brian Friel

Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010


The financial crisis that President Obama laid out in his fiscal 2011 budget request is a problem for the next Congress to deal with, not this one. With the economy stagnating and an election approaching, Washington will put off difficult budget choices until at least 2011.


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