ABC's Gibson falsely claimed "CBO says only 25 percent" of recovery bill "would get to people within a year"

SUMMARY: During an unaired portion of his interview with President Obama, ABC's Charles Gibson falsely claimed that the Congressional Budget Office "says only 25 percent" of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act "would get to people within a year." In fact, a CBO analysis of the Senate version of the recovery bill estimated that 26 percent of the bill would be spent before the end of September 2009 -- less than eight months from now -- and 78 percent would be spent by the end of fiscal year 2010.

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