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Using data from the Congressional Budget Office and White House Office of Management and Budget.

Hoven's Index for September 28, 2009


The projected federal deficit from 2009 through 2019 under President Obama's proposed budget: $11 trillion, or an average of $1 trillion every year for 11 years.


Interest costs alone, over 2010-19, to fund the additional deficits caused by legislation passed in the first two months of 2009: $404 billion.