41. Defense reductions : $ 78 billion ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS 42. The Congressional Budget Office's forecast and economic assumptions are an integral part of the budget process. 43. Last year we made certain economic assumptions and then ran right into a major advertising recession, 44. The Treasury Department signed off on all those accords after detailed study of their economic assumptions . 45. And we put together a campaign that I took into New Hampshire based on certain economic assumptions . 46. Our political and economic assumptions are so distorted that perfectly sensible economic ideas are seen as extreme. 47. The biggest hurdle to be overcome is that the two sides are operating from different economic assumptions . 48. These economic assumptions have major cumulative impacts. 49. Those issues remain stalled in a dispute over what economic assumptions to use in calculating a budget. 50. It frees up money for tax cuts, and it could bring about a compromise on economic assumptions .
