Question

“meeting the spending targets in this budget meant some very difficult choices.” president barack obama, 2012 budget message of the president read the passage. what did the president mean when he said he had to face “very difficult choices” when creating a federal budget? deciding which country to borrow from to finance spending deciding what would be funded and what would be cut deciding how to keep interest rates low on the national debt deciding how much to increase tax rates

Explanation:

When creating a federal budget, a president has to allocate limited funds. This involves making hard - choices about which programs or areas will receive funding and which ones will have their funding reduced. Deciding on borrowing from other countries, interest rates on debt, or tax rate increases are related but the core difficult choices are about budgetary allocations.

Answer:

deciding what would be funded and what would be cut