TheRealMafoo on 22 March 2009
I looked this up. He is on 60 minutes Monay, and is taking prime time Tuesday to talk to the people. He is campaigning to get his budget passed. He is looking for $3.6 Trillion.
Here is a good read:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/21/obama_makes_pitch_for_budget_p.html?wprss=44
"The budgetary concerns, voiced by congressional Republicans and some deficit-wary Democrats, were only amplified yesterday by a new forecast from the independent Congressional Budget Office estimating that this year's deficit will surpass $1.8 trillion. Meanwhile, the CBO said, Obama's budget proposal would leave the nation much deeper in debt than White House budget makers have estimated, with deficits averaging $1 trillion for the next decade."
