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Debt Projections Worsen; Administration Promises Action

By Steven T. Dennis
Roll Call Staff
Aug. 25, 2009, 12:32 p.m.

The Obama administration is promising to tighten its belt in the 2011 budget after new projections show a deficit $2 trillion larger than originally estimated over the next decade.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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