"On Monday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office published new calculations showing that the budget deficit now stems almost entirely from tax cuts and spending increases rather than from lingering effects of the economic slowdown."
-Edmund I. Andrews

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"Jim Abrams of the Associated Press reports that House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) is so frustrated by White House intransigence on its threat to veto a giant, jobs-rich highway bill, that he refuses to discuss the bill with anyone at the White House other than Bush.

'I don't deal with his people any more.'" Hastert said. "'We weren't getting straight numbers from his people and they changed their mind in the middle of the process.'"
-White House Briefing by Dan Froomkin