WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The Treasury Department has changed the scope of how the $700 billion financial rescue will be used, muddying attempts to gauge how much money they have left and providing a political opening for critics.
The Treasury revealed to Dow Jones Newswires over the weekend that they had $134.5 billion left in the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, a fact repeated by Secretary Timothy Geithner during a Sunday television interview. Since then, however, the Government Accountability Office issued a report suggesting that the amount remaining might actually be as low as $32.6 billion.
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