Federal Deficit and Debt: May 2022
Every month the U.S. Treasury releases data on the federal budget, including the current deficit. Here is the data for May 2022.
https://www.pgpf.org/the-current-federal-budget-deficit/budget-deficit-may-2022
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Every month the U.S. Treasury releases data on the federal budget, including the current deficit. Here is the data for May 2022.
https://www.pgpf.org/the-current-federal-budget-deficit/budget-deficit-may-2022
Prior to the Great Depression deficits were unusual in the U.S. Budget. Surpluses occurred in about two-thirds of the years between 1800 to 1929.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0023_federal-deficit-surplus
U.S. dependency on foreign lenders to finance the public debt has risen sharply.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0057_foreign-holders-debt
Recessions and countercyclical policies generally increase deficits, but deficits tend to diminish during and after recoveries.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0307_deficits_and_recessions
Medicare and Medicaid account for the majority of federal healthcare spending
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0169_federal_health_spending_composition
The United States is on pace to lead the world in debt increase as a percentage of GDP.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0310_us_lead_world_debt_increase
Foreign investors own one-third of all U.S. public debt.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0311_us_domestic_foreign_debt
Debt rises and falls with wars and changes in the economy. Debt is currently at its highest level since 1946.