But administration officials reiterated their call for an immediate package of new and accelerated tax cuts, saying the economy still faced problems, including economic weakness abroad, weak corporate profits and the possibility of a recovery, similar to the one after the last recession, in 1990-91, in which the unemployment rate remained high for months or years.
Regardless of its final size and composition, however, an immediate stimulus package must not undermine the nation's hard-won commitment to fiscal responsibility.
While the Conservative party is proposing an immediate £5bn package of cuts in public spending, Labour has, rightly, set out, to support people and businesses in time of economic need.
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On Thursday he stunned Democrats by saying that energy legislation should be part of an immediate economic stimulus package.
House Republican leaders are also pushing for a new, immediate tax cut package, including a reduction in the capital gains tax, that they say would boost the economy.
Wall Street is keeping a close eye on the passage of President Bush's tax cut, particularly the $100 billion worth of immediate relief the package now includes.
And it reiterates the administration's call for an immediate economic recovery package, setting aside $175 billion over three years for tax cuts including an acceleration of the individual income tax rate reductions adopted in the law enacted last year.
But the debate over what, if anything, to do about last year's tax cut is unlikely to be resolved this year, because any chances of enacting an immediate economic stimulus package that would include tax cuts have all but died in Congress.
