Budget Deficit

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended using trade deficits to calculate tariffs and stated that the trade deficit is “a result of the terms of trades, it’s a result of our budget

A study by the Manhattan Institute’s Daniel Di Martino finds that mass deportation of the millions of unskilled, uneducated migrants who have flooded this country thanks to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s disastrous border policies would greatly improve the national deficit.

Another landmark for the Biden-Harris administration.

South Carolina officials have discovered a bank account belonging to the state containing a whopping $1.8 billion — but no one seems to know why or how it got there.

It is the equivalent of 15.9 percent of the Federal budget for fiscal year 2022.

Bidenflation sent government spending soaring and depressed revenue.

“The rating downgrade of the United States reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden,” Fitch said Tuesday.

A majority of Americans want the United States debt ceiling to be raised “only if lawmakers include terms on reducing the federal budget deficit,” according to an Associated Press-NORC poll.

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D)  announced a revised budget plan to address the state’s $32 billion deficit.

Claim: President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he cut the deficit by $1.7 trillion in his first two years in office.

Debt is expected to be 118 percent of GDP by 2033.

President Biden improbably wants credit for deficit reduction.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said he doesn’t “see good things economically on the horizon” and this is partially due to the large budget deficit the United States has. Maher said that he does think

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) stated that by embracing “using growth projections to pay for some portions of the bipartisan bill,” Republicans have given Democrats a tool to argue the reconciliation bill is paid

The budget deficit rose to a record high in May. It’s not a coincidence that inflation is running at the fastest in decades.

A budget deficit that exceeds 5 percent of GDP has been rare in U.S. history. The Biden budget sees them as normal.

The deficit is up 30 percent and prices are rising rapidly.

Britain has seen its budget deficit rise during the coronavirus pandemic to its highest level since 1946, official figures showed Friday.

The CBO said that by the end of 2021, federal debt held by the public is projected to equal 102% of GDP. By 2051, it will be 202% of GDP.

Joe Biden has purportedly settled on former Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen as his secretary of the treasury, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, worked to forge a “grand bargain” with congressional Republicans on deficit reduction during the Obama years. As part of the effort, the former vice president openly advocated for putting entitlements programs, including Social Security, on the negotiating table.

Total federal debt held by the public rose 25 percent while Treasury yields fell 57 percent.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is running for the White House this year as an avowed champion of Social Security despite his decades-long effort to freeze spending for the program to cut the federal budget deficit.

The new Swedish 2021 budget has been revealed, with the government looking to spend more on foreign aid than on the country’s police force despite violent gang crime remaining a problem.

Democrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife has 14 staffers paid on a $2 million budget as New York City deals with a budgetary crisis of not being able to maintain city parks or make regular trash pickups.

The overal federal deficit came in smaller than expected in December although it is still nearly 12 percent higher than a year ago.

The government ran a surplus in September, bringing the full-year deficit down under the $1 trillion mark hit last month.

Tuesday, CNN “New Day” host Alisyn Camerota during a discussion about President Donald Trump and congressional leaders reaching a bipartisan budget deal said she wants the eight years of former President Barack Obama back. CNN’s John Avlon called Trump “Deficit

The CBO said it expects interest rates to be lower than it projected last year but even in the short term, its forecast is too high.

Several top German stakeholders, including the German Institute for Economic Research (IFO), have expressed support for the European Union opening an infringement process against the populist Italian government over deficit spending.

The European Union Commission has given the populist Italian coalition government 48 hours to address deficit spending concerns or face potential sanctions procedures if they fail to comply with the bloc’s rules.

Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) predicted on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria”  that the mounting budget deficit will become a “major issue” over the next year. Boehner pointed out how the $22 trillion debt is “approaching” going up $1

European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Pierre Moscovici has defended the French government going over the EU three per cent deficit to GDP limit after attacking the Italian budget for approaching the same limit.

Spending jumped higher in 2018, so the budget deficit is higher despite a rise in tax revenue. There are no signs that this poses a risk to the Trump boom.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday about the risk posed by the national debt.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) stated that the budget passed by Congress last week is the worst legislation he’s voted on in his time in Congress and no other bill is close. Brooks said, “Do