Deficit Fears Stall Obama Stimulus Plan
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 20th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Deficit Fears Stall Obama Stimulus Plan
Lori Montgomery, Wash Post
Barely a week after President Obama tried to re-energize his push for more spending on the economy, his agenda is stalled on Capitol Hill, mired in election-year anxiety about the deficit.Congress has delivered only about a quarter of the $266 billion in "temporary recovery measures" the president sought in his February budget request and ignored much of the rest. There is unlikely to be another "recovery" check for Social Security recipients. Come December, Obama's "Making Work Pay" tax credit — the signature initiative he regularly…
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Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times
