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Projected Deficit Bigger Than Expected

After looking at the president's budget proposal, the Congressional Budget Office says the U.S. government will be nearly $2 trillion in the red this year. And it projects that the deficits will just keep adding up over the next 10 years.

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Andrea Seabrook covers Capitol Hill as NPR's Congressional Correspondent.