From the director of the Congressional Budget Office:
Assuming enactment in mid-February, CBO estimates that the bill would increase outlays by $92 billion during the remaining several months of fiscal year 2009…In addition, CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that enacting the provisions in Division B would reduce revenues by $76 billion in fiscal year 2009
That is a combined $169 billion in deficits (I assume the discrepancy comes from rounding) that the government will run between now and October 1. That means only 20 percent of the stimulus bill’s cost shows up in the budget for this fiscal year. When members of Congress vote on this bill today, they will be voting to jolt the economy with deficit spending around the time of the next Super Bowl.





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