Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke today urged Congress to do more to cut the size of the deficit or risk severe damage to the economy.
"Unless we demonstrate a strong commitment to fiscal sustainability in the longer term, we will have neither financial stability nor healthy economic growth," he told the House Budget Committee.
He noted that current deficit projections of $1.8 trillion for this fiscal year before declining to $900 billion by 2011.
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