Biden Budget Proposes $17 Trillion in Deficits Over Next Decade

The third budget for President Joe Biden’s presidency was revealed by Joe Biden. It proposes to spend $6.8 trillion, and increase taxes by about $5 trillion. Although it is promoted as a deficit reduction plan, the White House projects trillions in budget shortfalls within the next ten years.

The projections of the administration (PDFThe U.S. government would have $17.055 trillion of federal deficits by 2023. This figure includes a deficit of $1.8646 in fiscal year 2024, which is 6.8 percent GDP.

According to the White House estimate, interest payments of $10.21 trillion could be accrued by the federal government.

In 2023, the federal debt held by the public will exceed $43.6 trillion. It accounts for more that 102 percent GDP. National debt will also rise to $50 trillion, increasing the ratio of debt-to GDP to 127.61%.

Additionally, the budget is lower than last year’s.PDF() The president had predicted nearly $14 trillion more deficits and debt over the next ten year period, which could potentially offset the claimed $3 trillion in savings.

According to Analyse The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, (CRFB) would inform you that the debt outlined in President’s budget would be “grow to a new record as a share of the economy over the next decade.”

“Debt would continue to rise unsustainably under the President’s budget, reaching a new record of 110 percent of GDP by 2033,” The CRFB sent a report. “This debt level is likely to be even higher under CBO’s forthcoming re-estimate of the budget and would rise even further if various expiring tax cuts are continued without additional offsets.”

These numbers were questioned by Janet Yellen (Treasury Secretary) during Friday’s hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee.

“You’re saying our policies created higher deficits than then you had projected last year. And now we’re going to take credit for reducing those higher deficits,” Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R.Pa.), spoke to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during Friday’s House Ways and Means Committee hearing.

“This budget does nothing,” He concluded. “In fact, it adds to the deficits and debts that we’ve been experiencing.”

Yellen failed to address this issue, explaining that $3 trillion is not enough “relative to where we were before this budget was issued and the deficits that we would have seen.”

Former Federal Reserve head expressed concern about the debts and current deficits.

Yellen was interviewed by Steve Liesman of CNBC at the Charles Schwab Impact Conference 2018. So called The U.S. debt trajectory “unsustainable.”

“If I had a magic wand, I would raise taxes and cut retirement spending,” She spoke.

During her nomination hearing in 2021, Yellen Recognized In an exchange with Senator John Thune (R.-S.D. That “eventually we’re going to have to deal with the issue of debt.”

“I think there’s no single metric that summarizes our overall fiscal situation, but one metric that I do think is useful to keep in mind is the interest burden of the debt—what share of our economy of GDP is going to pay interest on the debt,” Yellen told Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) in a separate exchange.

“The higher that gets, the more we find we have to use tax revenue just to pay the interest on the debt, and eventually that can lead to having to curtail other services, other spending, or eventually lead to runaway debt accumulation. That would be an unsustainable path,” She spoke.

Its recent Budget and Economic Outlook Report, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasted that annual deficits average $2 trillion over the 2024–2033 period.

“Measured relative to the size of the economy, the deficit equals 5.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023, and deficits average 6.1 percent of GDP from 2024 to 2033. As a result of those deficits, federal debt increases each year in CBO’s projections, rising from 98 percent of GDP this year to 118 percent in 2033,” The CBO stated.

The 2024 budget predicts that the annual deficit will average $1.705 trillion.

Vance Gin, founder and president Ginn Economic Consulting, has recently been Comment In a piece for American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), I stated that if the deficits continue to accelerate then there will be a need for the AIER to intervene. “Federal Reserve will, at some point, be forced to monetize this new debt at such a scale that the post-pandemic inflation will seem mild by comparison.”