The administration makes economic projections just 10 years in advance, so forecasts are available up to 2015.
But if the President's more optimistic economic projections are used, the deficit is reduced to $108 billion.
Without any actual economic projections to look at, it is hard to evaluate.
As a result, the Fair's economic projections were beginning to look rosy for the first time.
That report is based on economic projections for the next three years.
Leaders said the negotiations would reconvene only after the Republicans had new economic projections.
The latest economic projections suggest that both parties will be able to continue avoiding hard choices.
Until such information comes, he said, "it is awfully difficult to put any figures on your economic projections."
If you go back and read the economic projections of two or three years ago, they all predicted a cooling-off period.
Because of changes in the Federal and state tax codes last year, this year's economic projections are unusually uncertain, the report said.