This pace is literally the death spiral. $1 trillion every 2 months = $6 trillion per year. Our budget is $6 trillion per year. That means our entire budget is deficit funded. (Roughly). nothing stops this train @Lyn Alden
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Debt issuance is not smooth, but rather is lumpy. One cannot extrapolate two months of deficits into the annual deficit.
The Treasury refilled their cash balance by $400 billion in two months, which meant extra debt issuance that wont be repeated any time soon.
Additionally, tax season brings in a burst of taxes, and so the back half of the calendar year tends to have larger deficits than the front half.
Actual deficits are still closer to the $2 trillion range. And indeed, nothing stops this train.
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Not really. Deficits can be funded by debt issuance basically indefinitely when you are the world reserve currency
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