Published in the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday, January 28, 1997, page A3.

Congressional Budget Office Estimates Smaller Deficit than Expected.

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The Congressional Budget Office believes that federal deficits through 2002 will be lower than expected, moderately easing the task President Clinton and Republicans face in their attempt to eliminate deficits.

Clinton and Congress will need to find $154 billion in savings in 2002 to balance the budget that year, the CBO now projects in testimony obtained by the Associated Press. That is $56 billion less than the nonpartisan budget office estimated for that year in May.

Over the next five years, total deficits will be one-third smaller than the budget office projected last year, says the testimony which CBO Director June O'Neill plans to deliver today to the Senate Budget Committee.

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