by Jane Richey | Dec 8, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
The federal budget deficit has reached $292 billion just two months into fiscal 2013, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Friday. That is a fast start for a fiscal year that CBO already predicted will have a deficit of more than $1 trillion — the fifth year in a...
by Jane Richey | Dec 1, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) — Figures on government spending and debt (rounded). The government’s fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. Total public debt subject to limit Nov. 29– 16,283,989, 000,000 Statutory debt limit 16,394,000, 000,000 Total public debt...
