1. Budget directors are scratching their heads about how to deal with the shortfall.

2. At one point, White House budget director Jack Lew stormed out of a meeting, stranding talks.

3. Lew would replace Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, who is stepping down this month.

4. Case taught by the last city budget director under Rudy Giuliani.

5. Perhaps Mr Orszag, now the budget director in Barack Obama's White House,(/budget director.html) is about to storm out of his grand new office.

6. The Deputy Secretary of State had been budget director under former president President Bill Clinton.

7. Jack Lew, the proposed new budget director, is the quintessential technocrat.

8. The Deputy Secretary of State had been budget director under former President Bill Clinton.

9. Office of Management and Budget Director Joshua Bolten, who briefed reporters on the new request, said: "we anticipate that there will be a need for additional supplemental spending."

10. Office of Management and Budget Director Jim Nussle says a slowing economy combined with the costs of an economic stimulus package, are the main culprits for the current spike in the deficit.

11. The Deputy secretary Secretary of State had been budget director under fromer former President Bill Clinton.

12. Barack Obama yesterday introduced his new White House budget director, Peter Orszag, vowing to conduct a "line by line" review of the federal fisc.

13. Mr. Obama said shrinking that shortfall would be the top priority for his new budget director.