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| Title: FACTBOX: Details on the White House's new deficit forecasts |
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Below are the key figures that are already known: * The White House budget office will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection by some $2 trillion to approximately $9 trillion, according to an administration official. The previous forecast was $7.108 trillion. * The administration will trim its projection for the fiscal 2009 budget deficit to $1.58 trillion from $1.84 trillion. * The main reason for drop in the projected deficit is the elimination of a $250 billion "placeholder" that had been set aside in previous budget forecasts for potential future bank rescues. * Another $78 billion set aside for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp to pay for bank failures also will be saved because fewer banks went under than first expected. * U.S. officials said spending in the 2009 fiscal year would total $3.653 trillion and revenues would be $2.074 trillion. * The $1.58 trillion deficit would account for 11.2 percent of U.S. gross domestic product -- the highest deficit as a percentage of GDP since 1945. * In May, the White House pushed up its budget deficit estimates for 2009 to $1.84 trillion -- representing 12.9 percent of GDP. A White House forecast released in February projected a deficit of $1.75 trillion, or 12.3 percent of GDP. The 2009 fiscal year ends on September 30. (Compiled by Jeff Mason) Full article |
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