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“The federal budget posted a record monthly deficit in February”

“The U.S. posted its largest monthly budget deficit on record in February with a gap of $234 billion, breaking the previous $231.7 billion mark set in February 2012, Bloomberg reports.

The big picture: According to Treasury data released Friday, the deficit for the first five months of this fiscal year jumped to $544.2 billion — a 40% increase from the 2018 fiscal year — as corporate and individual tax revenues declined following President Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax cut package…”

https://www.axios.com/federal-budget-monthly-deficit-record-ecaf2f50-89a8-4124-bb9a-103b078a8933.html

In my opinion America needs to cut spending; big time. At some point this ridiculous spending will come back to bite us in the you know where.

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