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Obama's Spending: Exclusive Estimate of the True Number

Does the president really suffer from what House Speaker John Boehner calls a "spending illness"? Not according to an exclusive Newsweek-Daily Beast estimate of his outlays on new legislation since taking office.

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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on February 7, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo by: Mark Wilson / Getty Images)
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