Given the size of the slump, a temporary increase in the budget deficit is justifiable.

鉴于经济的不景气的规模之大，临时增加的预算赤字可以理解。

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Congress would be limited to approving the annual recommendations to increase of decrease Medicare's budget.

国会只有权力同意或反对每年对老年医保增加或减少预算的建议。

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Mr. Mayorkas said at a news conference that "we have worked hard to minimize the size of the proposed increase through budget cuts and other measures."

梅奥卡斯先生在一次新闻发布会上说：“我们尽量通过削减预算和其他手段缩小增费的涉及面。”

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Last week's Congressional Budget Office analysis of President Obama's budget projected that it would increase the federal deficit $2.3 trillion more than initially expected during the next 10 years.

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Increases in the estimated impact of the law on private insurance premiums, along with increases in the estimated cost of health care more generally, have led the Congressional Budget Office to increase its estimate of the budget cost of the law's coverage expansion.

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Yet, the Obama Administration, in its neverending efforts to maximize the effects of this barely 2% reduction in the increase of the federal budget on the public at large, now resorts to simply stealing money from the states.

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