When President Obama unveils his deficit-reduction package Wednesday, the credit union tax exemption could be in the mix.

Several media reports have said that Obama will draw on several sources of ideas, including his own deficit-reduction commission which mentioned eliminating tax expenditures, when drawing up the recommendations he plans to unveil at a speech at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

The commission's report doesn't mention the credit union tax exemption by name but the report released describes these expenditures as "another name for spending through the tax code."

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