Obama Budget Director Unsure How Much Budget Adds to Debt

Jeff Zients says he can’t recall deficit figures because ‘there are a lot of numbers’ in budget

Video: Sessions Plays Stump the OMB Director by Asking … About Deficits (HotAir)

Via Instapundit and the Washington Examiner, here’s another keepsake from the Barack Obama administration’s economic advisers.  Remember when Paul Ryan goaded then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner into admitting that the White House had no plan to deal with mounting national debt?  Yesterday, Senator Jeff Sessions got OMB Director Jeff Zients to admit that he didn’t know the dollar figure of the added deficits in the Obama budget projection he was defending.

In his defense, Zients tells Sessions, “There are a lot of numbers there.” Well, yeah — it’s a budget, isn’t it?

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