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U.S. Budget Gap Widens 27% in First 10 Months of Fiscal Year
WASHINGTON—The U.S. budget gap widened further in July as federal spending outpaced revenue collection, bringing the deficit to $867 billion so far this fiscal year, a 27% increase from the same period a year earlier.
What ever happened to the uproar of deficit spending?
Here is the actual and projected budget deficit or surplus by fiscal year, according to Congressional Budget Office data for modern history.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. budget gap widened further in July as federal spending outpaced revenue collection, bringing the deficit to $867 billion so far this fiscal year, a 27% increase from the same period a year earlier.
What ever happened to the uproar of deficit spending?
Here is the actual and projected budget deficit or surplus by fiscal year, according to Congressional Budget Office data for modern history.
- 2021 - $916 billion budget deficit (projected)
- 2020 - $987 billion budget deficit (projected)
- 2019 - $984 billion budget deficit (projected)
- 2018 - $833 billion budget deficit (projected)
- 2017 - $665 billion budget deficit
- 2016 - $585 billion budget deficit
- 2015 - $439 billion budget deficit
- 2014 - $514 billion budget deficit
- 2013 - $719 billion budget deficit
- 2012 - $1.1 trillion budget deficit
2011 - $1.3 trillion budget deficit
2010 - $1.3 trillion budget deficit
2009 - $1.4 trillion budget deficit
2008 - $455 billion budget deficit
2007 - $162 billion budget deficit
2006 - $248.2 billion budget deficit
2005 - $319 billion budget deficit
2004 - $412.7 billion budget deficit
2003 - $377.6 billion budget deficit
2002 - $157.8 billion budget deficit
2001 - $128.2 billion budget surplus
2000 - $236.2 billion budget surplus
1999 - $125.6 billion budget surplus
1998 - $69.3 billion budget surplus - 1997 - $21.9 billion budget deficit
- 1996 - $107.4 billion budget deficit
- 1995 - $164 billion budget deficit
- 1994 - $203.2 billion budget deficit
- 1993 - $255.1 billion budget deficit
- 1992 - $290.3 billion budget deficit
- 1991 - $269.2 billion budget deficit
- 1990 - $221 billion budget deficit
- 1989 - $152.6 billion budget deficit
- 1988 - $155.2 billion budget deficit
- 1987 - $149.7 billion budget deficit
- 1986 - $221.2 billion budget deficit
- 1985 - $212.3 billion budget deficit
- 1984 - $185.4 billion budget deficit
- 1983 - $207.8 billion budget deficit
- 1982 - $128 billion budget deficit
- 1981 - $79 billion budget deficit