Debt & Deficits
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Treasury: $1.9 Trillion Deficit in First 11 Months of Fiscal Year
Read moreThe United States borrowed $1.9 trillion in the first eleven months of fiscal year 2024, including $380 billion in August, according to the latest...
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CBO Estimates $1.9 Trillion Deficit for First 11 Months of Fiscal Year
Read moreIn the first eleven months of fiscal year 2024, the United States borrowed $1.9 trillion, including $381 billion in August, according to the latest...
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Treasury: $1.5 Trillion Deficit in First 10 Months of Fiscal Year
Read moreThe United States borrowed $1.5 trillion in the first ten months of fiscal year 2024, including $244 billion in July, according to the latest Monthly...
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CBO Estimates $1.5 Trillion Deficit for First 10 Months of Fiscal Year
Read moreThe United States borrowed $1.5 trillion in the first ten months of fiscal year 2024, including $242 billion in July, according to the latest Monthly...
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Gross National Debt Reaches $35 Trillion
Read moreThe gross national debt of the United States reached $35 trillion last Friday, seven months after the previous milestone reached at the end of last...
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Meeting Fiscal Goals Under CBO’s June 2024 Baseline
Read moreIt would require nearly $10 trillion of deficit reduction to stabilize debt at its current share of the economy over the next decade, according to the...
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Trump and Biden: Debt Growth
Read moreWe recently estimated that former President Trump and current President Biden approved $8.4 trillion and $4.3 trillion of new ten-year borrowing (or...
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Trump and Biden: The National Debt
Read moreThe national debt is on course to reach a record share of the economy under the next presidential administration, due in part to policies approved by...
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Government Spending Just Keeps on Growing
Read moreThe latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline shows that federal spending this year will be the largest it’s ever been outside a crisis – far...
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CBO Releases June 2024 Baseline Update
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released new ten-year budget and economic projections – an update from its February baseline – again...
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Record Interest Next Year, Record Debt Projected in Just 3 Years
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook today, projecting that the national debt will set a new...
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CBO Estimates $1.2 Trillion Deficit for First Eight Months of Fiscal Year
Read moreThe United States borrowed $1.2 trillion in the first eight months of fiscal year 2024, including $348 billion in May, according to the latest Monthly...