Auditing and Financial Management:

Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today

GAO-08-501CG, Feb 6, 2008

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This is a Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, in Princeton, NJ, on February 6, 2008. Major topics of this presentation include: federal spending, the budget deficit, the growing fiscal burden, federal debt and debt held by the public, health care spending, social security, and state and local governments' increasing fiscal challenges.