Record deficit will not trim Obama agenda

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WASHINGTON, March 21 (AFP): New forecasts that the US deficit will hit a record 1.845 trillion dollars will not trim President Barack Obama's objectives or thwart his plan to halve the shortfall by 2013, the White House said yesterday.
"None of the numbers today changed the president's either objectives or his ability to achieve that deficit reduction," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
Gibbs was speaking after the release of a new set of deficit projections for fiscal 2009 by the budget arm of Congress.