Feds still creating confusion in way it forecasts deficits: experts

The fall update predicted a smaller deficit for the current fiscal year, but did not factor in a $6-billion contingency like the budget did.
Don Drummond, former senior bureaucrat at the Department of Finance, at a House Finance Committee meeting in 2009.

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