text: Summary Box: Leaner Budget, Stubborn Debt (AP) AP - SEEING RED: The government deficit is so big that the just-passed  #36;388 billion bill financing almost every federal agency in 2005 could be eliminated and there would still be red ink.
inputs: Summary Box: Leaner Budget, Stubborn Debt (AP) AP - SEEING RED: The government deficit is so big that the just-passed  #36;388 billion bill financing almost every federal agency in 2005 could be eliminated and there would still be red ink.