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The United States federal budget for fiscal year 2009 began as a spending request submitted by President George W. Bush to the 110th Congress.The final resolution written and submitted by the 110th Congress to be forwarded to the President was approved by the House on June 5, 2008.
The United States has just logged its biggest budget deficit year in history.The nation posted a $46.6 billion deficit for September, and a record $1.42 trillion deficit for the 2009 fiscal year ...
More good news for the U.S. economy, as the nation's budget deficit narrowed to $120.3 billion in November, the U.S. Treasury Department announced Thursday. A Bloomberg News economists survey had ...
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated that, partially as the result of the CARES Act, the budget deficit for fiscal year 2020 would increase to a record $3.8 trillion, or 18.7% GDP. [91] For scale, in 2009 the budget deficit reached 9.8% GDP ($1.4 trillion nominal dollars) in the depths of the Great Recession. CBO forecast in ...
In a disappointing start to the federal government's new fiscal year, the nation posted a higher-than-expected $176.4 billion budget deficit for October, the Treasury Department announced Thursday ...
The major deficit increase in fiscal year 2009 (the last year budgeted by President Bush) reflected the Great Recession. Recall that fiscal year 2009 ran from October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2009. Although that fiscal year overlaps with President Obama's tenure, it could still arguably be included with President Bush's performance.
It's hardly surprising, but, as always, it is something of a shock: The federal government spent some $111 billion more than it brought in last month, pushing its budget deficit for the fiscal ...
The Congressional Budget Office projected two weeks prior to Obama's first inauguration that the deficit in FY 2009 (a year budgeted by President Bush) would be $1.2 trillion and that the debt increase over the following decade would be $3.1 trillion assuming the expiration of the Bush tax cuts as scheduled in 2010, or around $6.0 trillion if ...