Your Call 103007 The Budget

How can we make sense of the $2.8 trillion dollar U.S. budget? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with Linda Bilmes, a budget expert and public policy professor at the Kennedy School of Government. Federal spending grew by nearly 50 percent between 2001 and 2007 and the federal debt has grown to about 9 trillion dollars. What is the overall war spending in the budget? And what’s being squeezed as a result? It’s Your Call, Rose Aguilar, and you.
 
Guest:
Linda Bilmes, a budget expert and public policy professor at the Kennedy School of Government

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