U.S. President Joe Biden (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The U.S. federal budget deficit widened 454% in March from a year earlier, as the government issued the third round of stimulus checks to help Americans ride out the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
The budget gap rose to $660 billion in March, the Treasury Department said Monday, from $119 billion in the same month last year. Revenue rose 13% to $268 billion in March, while spending increased 161% to $927 billion.
The government’s spending surge has provided some cushion to the economy from the pandemic’s devastation, but it has also sent deficits soaring to levels not seen since the end of World War II as a proportion of the economy. Weaker tax revenue has contributed to the shortfall.
For the first six months of fiscal 2021, the deficit widened 130% to a record $1.7 trillion. Outlays from October through March rose to $3.4 trillion, an increase of 45%. Receipts rose 6% to $1.7 trillion.
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