{"id":438441,"date":"2022-01-28T14:53:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T19:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/?p=438441"},"modified":"2022-01-28T14:53:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T19:53:16","slug":"eight-month-deficit-feds-spent-73-7-billion-more-than-they-took-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/news\/research-and-markets\/eight-month-deficit-feds-spent-73-7-billion-more-than-they-took-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight-month deficit: Feds spent $73.7 billion more than they took in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government ran a budget deficit of $73.7 billion for the April to November period of the current fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Department says the result compared with a deficit of $232 billion in the same period a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Program spending, excluding net actuarial losses, between April and November totalled $289.5 billion, down from nearly $386.4 billion a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Public debt charges for the eight-month period totalled nearly $16.5 billion, up from $13.5 billion in the same period a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Net actuarial losses amounted to nearly $6.9 billion compared with nearly $10.3 billion a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue for April to November totalled nearly $239.2 billion, up from $178.1 billion a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$16.5 billion in federal spending April through November is on public debt charge alone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180694,"featured_media":420086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2312,2313],"tags":[2794],"yst_prominent_words":[13278,102027,102026,77839,77838,77836,36297,17668,14351,11848,11569,11415,9196,6863,6795],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438445,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438441\/revisions\/438445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438441"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=438441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}