Barack Obama actually said...

So tonight, I am proposing that starting this year, we freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years. Now, this would reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade.

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President Obama proposes a freeze on domestic spending to address the deficit.

01/24/2011

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