Carney on Budget: ‘Extraordinary Document’; Geithner: ‘Unsustainable’

Published February 17, 2011 8:53pm EST



Mixed messaging from the Obama administration today on the budget: Spokesman Jay Carney called the president’s budget “extraordinary,” while Treasury secretary Tim Geithner said “it’s unsustainable.”

Here’s Geithner:

Then again, maybe it’s not a mixed message. It’s possible Carney meant that the budget is “extraordinary” because it’s “unsustainable”?