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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been out managing expectations ahead of the budget. ( ABC News: Callum Flinn ) Welcome back to your weekly federal politics update, where Courtney Gould gets you up to speed on the happenings from Parliament House. If Jim Chalmers needed a reminder that he's running out of time to revamp the budget, the countdown clock quietly ticking on the treasury website is a sight for sore eyes. The treasurer has been pretty clear the budget he's handing down in two weeks isn't the one he dreamed up originally. But "there are some common elements", he told a CommBank podcast. Fa