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Tue, Feb 5, 2008 -- 9:00 AM
Bush's Lame Duck Budget
President Bush's $3.1 trillion proposed federal budget, announced yesterday, would produce record deficits despite cuts in
Medicare and other programs. Forum crunches the numbers.
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Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
- Alan Auerbach, Robert D. Burch professor of economics and law at UC Berkeley and director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance
- Chris Edwards, director of tax policy at the Cato Institute
- John Godfrey, journalist with the Wall Street Journal
- Linda Bilmes, professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and co-author of "The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict"
- Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation
