12/22/2023 0 Comments Us budget deficit![]() ![]() Debt Held by the Public at the end of September 2023: $26.2 trillion.Partially offsetting those effects was a $131 billion increase in payroll taxes. The largest decreases were in individual income taxes, which fell by $456 billion, and remittances from the Federal Reserve, which were down by $107 billion. In FY23, total revenues decreased by $457 billion compared to the previous year. Partially offsetting those increases were the expiration of advance payments for the child tax credit (which were recorded as outlays) and spending on pandemic relief programs for state, local, tribal, and territorial governments and public health. Other categories that have grown significantly are higher spending for Social Security ($136 billion), a reduction in receipts from the auction of licenses to use the electromagnetic spectrum (which are recorded as offsets to spending and are down by $104 billion), and an increase in deposit insurance ($101 billion). More than one-quarter of that increase stemmed from growth in interest costs, which rose by $184 billion, or 39 percent, mostly due to higher interest rates. However, if not for the effects of the student loan adjustments in 20, outlays would have been $6.5 trillion in FY23, a $575 billion increase compared to the previous year. In FY23, total outlays were $6.1 trillion, $137 billion less than the same period in the previous year (without adjusting for timing shifts). Excluding the offsetting effects associated with student debt forgiveness, the actual deficit in FY23 was $2 trillion, more than double the underlying deficit in FY22. However, the budgetary treatment of the Administration’s planned cancellation of some student loans - which was never implemented because of the Supreme Court’s decision prohibiting it - masks a much larger underlying difference in outlays and distorts each year’s deficit. Without the timing effects, the deficit for FY23 would be $374 billion above the corresponding total for the year before. ![]() The deficit in FY23 was $320 billion above the previous year’s level. Revenues in September 2023 were $20 billion below collections from a year ago, mostly from slightly lower individual income and corporate taxes, as well as a decrease in estate and gift taxes and customs duties. Without the adjustment recorded in September 2022, outlays in September 2023 were $100 billion higher than the year before. Much of that cost was offset in August 2023, when outlays were reduced by $333 billion in light of the Supreme Court decision regarding debt forgiveness. The significant decrease in spending stems from a $379 billion adjustment recorded by the Department of Education in September 2022, reflecting the costs of cancellation for the loans of many borrowers. Spending in September 2023 was down $279 billion compared to the same month in 2022, not adjusting for the timing shift. Excluding the effects of the timing shifts, the deficit would have been $99 billion in September 2023, and the year-over-year difference would have been a $268 billion decrease. However, October 1 fell on a weekend in FY22 and FY23, causing certain payments to shift into September, increasing outlays for the month ($63 billion in FY22 and $72 billion in FY23). ![]() The federal government ran a deficit of $171 billion in September 2023 - $259 billion less than the deficit of $430 billion that was recorded in September 2022.
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