Joshua Bolten Budget Quotations

While I applaud the sentiment, I think it's not likely to be practically realistic to plan to try to offset in other places of the budget the large emergency relief that's needed in this case,

The U.S. budget deficit is falling, and it's falling fast,

We must also redouble our efforts to reduce unnecessary spending elsewhere in the budget to help offset recovery costs and keep us on track of meeting the president's gal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009,

The federal budget picture is ... is steadily declining out over the next five years ... toward the President's goal of cutting the deficit in half, ... I feel confident that we will remain on that path as long as we have continued good economic growth.