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Compare And Contrast The Federal Budget Deficit By Andrew Ackerman

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The author of this article, Andrew Ackerman, wrote this article in response to a spending plan proposed by then President Obama in February 2015 for 2016 budget. This new spending plan would increase budgets for two government agencies, causing opposition from congressional republicans, and increase the federal budget deficit. Ackerman reports on the new budget proposal from the White House that would potentially add to the Federal Budget Deficit. (Ackerman, 2015). The spending plan that is one of the tools of Fiscal Policy, would increase funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by $222 million to $1.72 billion, as well as, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) receiving $72 million-dollar increase. This budget proposal
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