US Budget Deficit Reaches $1.99Trln in 2025-2026 Fiscal Year — Treasury
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US budget deficit reached $1.992 trillion in the 2025–2026 fiscal year, the Department of the Treasury said in its report released on Friday. A year earlier, the figure stood at $1.775 trillion. In September, the US budget deficit fell to $26.9 billion from $166.779 billion in August. Analysts surveyed by Trading Economics had projected a decline to $29 billion. In September 2025, the United States recorded a budget surplus of $197.938 billion. According to the report, government spending in September rose 11% year-on-year to $584.775 billion, while revenue increased 1.5 times to $557.875 billion. In the fiscal year that just ended, total US spending amounted to $7.396 trillion, with revenue reaching $5.403 trillion.
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