GDP growth was initially estimated to have risen just 0.7%.
The benefit cap was initially estimated to affect 56,000 households nationally.
Spending for the account was initially estimated at $50 million, but has recently been around $15 million.
It was initially estimated to cost $10 trillion in tax revenue, then, after revisions, maybe $3 trillion, by one adviser's estimate.
The double dip between Q4 2011 and Q2 2012 was initially estimated to consist of three quarterly contractions in GDP of 0.2%, 0.2% and 0.7%.
The two executives also again raised the figure for the noncash charges dating back to 1997, to $181.3 million, from $120 million and $68.5 million before that -- meaning it will be almost triple what was initially estimated.
But Sept. 11 and the fact the Capitol was a potential target of the fourth hijacked plane gave new impetus to the project, which is essentially an underground office building that was initially estimated to cost $265 million.
The cost of the package was initially estimated to be $31.6 billion over five years, but a last-minute change pushed by Republicans in the Senate may have blunted the savings by as much as $7 billion.
Turnout was initially estimated to be the same as in April, at 7m (though the first-round number was revised to 6.6m after more than 350,000 ballots were deemed fraudulent).
One cone was initially estimated to be half a million years old and later thought to be only 50,000 years old; a joke among project opponents is that when its age is estimated again, the eruption that produced it will not have happened yet.
The auction was part of the city's plan to sell 2,000 new medallions for wheelchair-accessible taxis, which would raise the number of medallions in the city to more than 15,000 and was initially estimated to bring in about $1 billion.
