Read more budget deficit stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/19373/budget-deficit.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:44:50 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73854/white-house-eyes-tarp-cash-to-slash-deficit.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe White House is debating using some of what remains in the $700 billion bailout fund to help cut the nation's deficit. Around $210 billion remains unspent and financial institutions are expected to repay another $50 billion over the next 18 months. The administration wants to keep some of that...http://www.newser.com/story/73854/white-house-eyes-tarp-cash-to-slash-deficit.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Nov 2009 6:17:42 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73845/9-other-states-have-calif-sized-fiscal-messes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCalifornia has by no means cornered the market on enormous financial problems at the state level, with a report out today saying Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin are also at tremendous risk. The Pew Center sees widespread unemployment, huge budget deficits, and the...http://www.newser.com/story/73845/9-other-states-have-calif-sized-fiscal-messes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 20:14:46 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71910/record-14t-deficit-imperils-recovery.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe federal deficit in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 was $1.4 trillion, lower than projected but still a record. At 10% of GDP, the figure is the largest since 1945, when the deficit was 21.5% of GDP. The figure made public today coincides with early rumblings...http://www.newser.com/story/71910/record-14t-deficit-imperils-recovery.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 Oct 2009 18:35:30 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71829/enough-already-stop-trying-to-grow-government.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration hasn't just misjudged the national mood by trying to push through health care reform in the middle of a recession, it's misjudged the whole era we're living in, writes Peggy Noonan. This isn't the '30s, when income tax was new and the federal government was still lean,...http://www.newser.com/story/71829/enough-already-stop-trying-to-grow-government.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 Oct 2009 3:45:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70398/social-security-faces-grim-forecast-for-2010-2011.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBig job losses and a spike in early retirement claims from laid-off seniors will force Social Security to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes the next 2 years, the first time that's happened since the 1980s. The deficits—$10 billion in 2010 and $9 billion in...http://www.newser.com/story/70398/social-security-faces-grim-forecast-for-2010-2011.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 27 Sep 2009 16:40:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70250/obvious-guy-to-fix-calif-guy-who-broke-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCalifornia is a financial mess, hamstrung by some late-1970s leftovers: some ill-considered “low-impact liberalism” and a ballot measure that makes raising taxes nearly impossible. Both came during the governorship of Democrat Jerry Brown, he of the motto “Maybe by avoiding doing things you accomplish quite a lot”—and the leading...http://www.newser.com/story/70250/obvious-guy-to-fix-calif-guy-who-broke-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 26 Sep 2009 5:16:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69171/obamas-health-speech-a-victory-for-the-center-brooks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama’s health care speech was “the finest speech of his presidency,” writes David Brooks: While rhetorically appeasing liberals, it “subtly staked out ground in the center” to win over moderates, making passage “much more likely,” he opines in the New York Times . Obama was firm in creating the “Dime...http://www.newser.com/story/69171/obamas-health-speech-a-victory-for-the-center-brooks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Sep 2009 8:08:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68003/dont-fear-debt-failed-reform-is-scarier.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPaul Krugman isn't surprised that the projected $9 trillion deficit over the next decade is being greeted as a sign of economic apocalypse—and that commentators think it proves health care reform should be scuppered. In fact, he writes in the New York Times , it's good to run a deficit...http://www.newser.com/story/68003/dont-fear-debt-failed-reform-is-scarier.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 28 Aug 2009 6:19:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67742/us-deficit-soaring-to-16t-this-year.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHere's the latest eye-popping number produced by the recession: $1.6 trillion. The White House and CBO today projected that figure as this year's deficit, reports the New York Times . While it would be the biggest since World War II, the figure is actually about $260 billion better than anticipated...http://www.newser.com/story/67742/us-deficit-soaring-to-16t-this-year.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Aug 2009 10:56:00 CDT