In remarks to reporters Thursday, Congressional Budget Office administrator Doug Elmendorf warned of a looming budget crisis that "cannot be solved through minor tinkering." The nation's "unsustainable" mad money could hike the subject debt from $7.5 trillion at the end of 2009 to 20.3 trillion in 2020, when the debt would total 90 percent of gross familial product, Elmendorf noted (Allen, 4/8).

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