Articles tagged under: budget deficit
U.S. Faces $3 Trillion Deficit
Published September 14, 2020
For the first 11 months of the fiscal year, the annual deficit for the United States has grown to $3 trillion. That compares to $1 trillion during the same time last year. Government spending went up sharply since March when…Deficit Widens by 77 Percent
Published March 6, 2019
For the first four months of this fiscal year, the U.S. government had a budget deficit of $310 billion. That compares to $176 billion in the same time period last year, a 77 percent increase. A portion of the deficit…