{"id":21530,"date":"2026-09-10T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/10\/us-federal-budget-deficit-hits-2-trillion\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:15:14","slug":"us-federal-budget-deficit-hits-2-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/10\/us-federal-budget-deficit-hits-2-trillion\/","title":{"rendered":"US federal budget deficit reaches $2 trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office show that the US federal budget deficit reached $2 trillion in the first 11 months of fiscal year 2026.<\/p>\n<p>According to the estimate, the newly recorded figure is only $6 billion less than the deficit in the same period of the previous fiscal year, indicating continued financial pressure on the US federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Budget Office also said that large and persistent federal government deficits in recent years have been among the main factors behind the rapid increase in US national debt.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, the US national debt has doubled over the past decade and quadrupled in less than two decades. The Congressional Budget Office is a nonpartisan body affiliated with the US Congress that prepares fiscal and economic estimates related to the federal budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US federal budget deficit hits $2 trillion in the first 11 months of fiscal 2026, CBO estimates show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}