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提高国债限额的频率不会减缓;布什把联邦赤字缩减一半的诺言将更难以实现;联邦预算赤字问题将影响美国外贸政策在美国国会即将休会前,应布什政府的呼吁,国会在3月16日紧急通过法令, 再借国债7810亿美元,使国债限额从原来的8．18万亿美元,上升到近9万亿美元。美国财政部长约翰斯诺闻讯后欢呼说, 国会保护了美国的全部诚实和信用,使政府能够兑现已经做出的各种承诺。紧接着, 国会批准拨款920亿美元用于伊拉克和阿富汗战争以及飓风的善后工作。
The frequency of raising the limit of national debt will not slow; Bush’s promise to reduce the federal deficit by half will be harder to achieve; the federal budget deficit will affect U.S. foreign trade policy Before the U.S. Congress is about to adjourn, at the Bush administration’s call, the National Assembly on March 16 Urgently passed the decree, and then borrowed 781 billion U.S. dollars of government bonds, raising the national debt ceiling from the previous 8.18 trillion U.S. dollars to nearly 9 trillion U.S. dollars. After hearing of the news, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow cheered that the National Assembly has protected all the U.S. honesty and credit so that the government can honor all the promises it has made. Immediately afterwards, Congress approved the appropriation of 92 billion U.S. dollars for the aftermath of the Iraqi-Afghan war and hurricane.