Grim New CBO Long-Term Budget Projections Show Deterioration, Yet Understate Situation

Balancing the budget in 2006 would require immediately terminating such programs as homeland security, justice, highways, veterans' benefits, unemployment benefits, environmental spending, socialservices, community development, energy, international aid, scienceresearch and farm subsidies.

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