More federal money for cards??

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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

lol indeed
per AI we are going the wrong direction

The U.S. federal budget deficit is currently around $1.8 trillion for fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025). Compared to six months ago, which would be around April 2025, the deficit was approximately $1.3 trillion. Therefore, the deficit has increased by approximately $500 billion over that six-month period.

Not sure about this math, although it's hard to tell because they seem to be looking at weird interim periods. So if we look at full federal government fiscal years:

2024 federal deficit (fiscal year ended 9/30/24) was $1.83T.

2025 federal deficit (fiscal year ended 9/30/25) was $1.8T. Down by $0.03T!!!

And if you want to go back, 2023 was $1.7T, 2022 was $1.4T. If you want to look at the heart of the pandemic, 2021 was $2.8T, and 2020 was $3.1T.

So at least compared to the pandemic, things are looking up!