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The White House has released a letter from the President to the two Senate Chairmen who are working on (different) versions of health care reform:  Senator Kennedy (D-MA), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.  The letter is dated yesterday and [...]

The President spoke about the budget yesterday when we released the Mid-Session Review, the summer update of the budget numbers.
Here’s the least you need to know:

This year’s deficit (for Fiscal Year 2007) is now projected to be $205 billion.
Good news:  That’s $43 billion lower than last year’s deficit, and $39 billion lower than we [...]