Meanwhile, budget limits and attrition have left the agency with 118 inspectors - 17 shy of what federal law authorizes.

与此同时，囿于预算限制和人员流失，目前该局仅有118名检查员- - -而其中只有区区17人有联邦法律授权。

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Contrary to the charges made by some of its opponents, the provisions of the new deficit-reduction law for indiscriminate cuts in the federal budget are justified.

与反对者的指责相反，为执行缩减联邦预算的赤字缩减新法规定已经被证明是正确的。

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Federal law requires that CBO present current-law budget projections.

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My recommendation is to ignore the official current-law scoring estimates of the federal budget, unless you have sufficient analytical resources to sort through the legislative details, line by line, and figure out what is really going on.

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