{"id":90428,"date":"2025-01-15T00:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T05:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=90428"},"modified":"2025-01-14T20:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T01:20:49","slug":"budget-deficit-rose-in-december-and-is-now-40-higher-than-it-was-a-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2025\/budget-deficit-rose-in-december-and-is-now-40-higher-than-it-was-a-year-ago.html","title":{"rendered":"Budget deficit rose in December and is now 40% higher than it was a year ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) The federal budget sank further into red ink during December, leaving the first fiscal quarter deficit nearly 40% higher than it was the prior year. For the final calendar month of 2024, the shortfall totaled $86.7 billion, which actually represented a 33% decline for the same period a year prior, according to a Treasury Department report Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/01\/14\/budget-deficit-rose-in-december-and-is-now-40percent-higher-than-it-was-a-year-ago.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) The federal budget sank further into red ink during December, leaving the first fiscal quarter deficit nearly 40% higher than it was the prior year. For the final calendar month of 2024, the shortfall totaled $86.7 billion, which actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90429,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90428\/revisions\/90429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}