We have to find a way to give the American people confidence that we are going to have a framework that brings these deficits down.
Tim Geithner: “We have to find a way to give the American people confidence that we are going to have a framework that brings these…”
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Geithner stresses the need for a framework to reduce deficits and build public confidence.
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