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The Breakdown: Spending Freeze Edition

The Obama Administration has announced a plan to reduce the budget deficit through a three-year freeze on non-security discretionary spending. What are possible long-term effects?

Chris Hayes

January 29, 2010

Earlier this week, the Obama Administration announced a plan to reduce the budget deficit through a three-year freeze on non-security discretionary spending. On this week’s The Breakdown, Washington Editor Christopher Hayes explains the details of the proposed spending freeze and its possible long-term effects on federal programs.

Related Links

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

The Atlantic‘s breakdown of the freeze

Defense analysts say no to the exemption

Washington Post reporting on the announcement of the freeze.

Chris HayesTwitterChris Hayes is the Editor-at-Large of The Nation and host of “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC.


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