{"id":34684,"date":"2024-11-13T19:09:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T01:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=34684"},"modified":"2024-11-13T19:09:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T01:09:42","slug":"u-s-budget-deficit-exceeds-expectations-at-257-5-billion-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=34684","title":{"rendered":"U.S. budget deficit exceeds expectations at $257.5 billion in October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The U.S. Treasury Department reported that the U.S. budget deficit was $257.45 billion in October, compared with a surplus of $64.698 billion in the previous month.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Analysts polled by Trading Economics expected&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240818\/1061040450.html\">a deficit<\/a>&nbsp;of $211 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The deficit in October last year was $66.564 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">According to a report from the U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. government spending in the reporting month increased by 24.3% year-on-year to US$584.221 billion, while revenue decreased by 19% year-on-year to US$326.77 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20241114\/1062647920.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Treasury Department reported that the U.S. budget deficit was $257.45 billion in October, compared with a surplus of $64.698 billion in the previous month. Analysts polled by Trading Economics expected&nbsp;a deficit&nbsp;of $211 billion. The deficit in October last year was $66.564 billion. According to a report from the U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3314,1780,10442],"class_list":["post-34684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-budget","tag-deficit","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34686,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34684\/revisions\/34686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}