In 1998,the Federal Budget

question 69

Multiple Choice

In 1998,the federal budget

• A) set a record for deficit spending.
• B) saw its first surplus in thirty years.
• C) was one-third smaller than it had been six years earlier.
• D) had cut military spending in half from its Cold War peak.
• E) had paid off the national debt.

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