President-elect Barack Obama has signaled that he will pursue a far more ambitious plan of spending and tax cuts than anything he outlined on the campaign trail \u201d\u201d a plan “big enough to deal with the huge problem we face,\u201d\u009d a top adviser said Sunday \u201d\u201d setting the tone for a recovery effort that could absorb and define much of his term.<\/p>\n
A member of the Obama economic advisory team, William M. Daley, acknowledged that because of the gravity of the situation, Mr. Obama was leaning toward letting a Bush tax cut for the wealthy expire on schedule in 2011 rather than repealing it sooner.<\/p>\n
There were hints Sunday that a stimulus package might be extraordinarily large. Austan Goolsbee, a senior Obama economic adviser, charged that the Bush administration had \u201cdithered\u201d\u009d as the economy turned down and suggested that the incoming administration would take dramatic action.<\/p>\n