The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Pub.L. 111–5),  nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S.  Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009.  Developed in response to the Great Recession, the ARRA's primary objective  was to ...
The federal government has closed out its fourth straight year of trillion-dollar- plus deficits, and the imperative to rein in spending has never been greater. ... As  this 2012 edition of Federal Spending by the Numbers shows, total federal  spending for fiscal year 2012[1] reached $3.6 trillion, or 22.9 percent the size of  the entire ...
Mar 24, 2009 ... If you couple that with the bush voodoo league tax cut, that would amount to  another 2.8 trillion dollars. . Total equals nearly 4 trillion! Ofcourse Bush  earmarked ,for 2009 (Obama came into office in 2009) trillions more just for the  TARP funds/bailout for 2009. It is NOT fuzzy math to see that the vast majority ...
Jun 4, 2012 ... The truth is that the nearly 18 percent spike in spending in fiscal 2009 — for  which the president is sometimes blamed entirely — was mostly due to  appropriations .... “An 8 percent—or a $32 billion—increase in 1 year on top of  the stimulus package is simply unnecessary and unsustainable,” he declared.
Feb 26, 2016 ... But now that it has been cleared to receive money from the federal government's  nearly $800 billion economic stimulus effort, the debate may be over. .... Senior  Services of Houston for poor performance and for spending nearly half of its  funding on administrative costs, while the legal limit is 5 percent.
The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding.