The US Treasury said the US budget deficit reached $262.434 billion in February, up 21.2 percent from $216.59 billion a year earlier.
Budget revenues decreased by 9.6 percent, to $262.114 billion, while expenditures increased by 3.6 percent, to $524.548 billion.
In the five months of the current fiscal year, which began on October 1, the US budget generated a deficit of $722.637 billion, up 52 percent from the previous year.
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The budget was last closed with a surplus more than 20 years ago
- Budget revenues decreased by 4 percent to $1,735 billion, and its expenditures increased by 7.7 percent, to $2,458 billion.
- The budget deficit for the 2022 fiscal year, which ended at the end of September last year, was $1,375 billion, which is half the $2,600 billion deficit a year earlier.
- In fiscal 2020, a record deficit of $3.1 trillion was created.
The last time the US budget closed in surplus was in fiscal 2001.
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The US President’s budget proposal as a long-term goal includes reducing the fiscal deficit by $3,000 billion in 10 years, and will also increase the tax burden for those earning more than $400,000 (about 145 million HUF). ) in the year.
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