据美国财政部称，2020财年联邦预算赤字预计将超过1万亿美元，这一数字将比此前预测提前两年达到新报告来自国会预算办公室(CBO)周三发布。
截至9月30日的本财年将出现约9600亿美元的赤字，CBO表示，2020财年这一数字可能会攀升至至少1万亿美元。此前，向国会提供预算和经济信息的无党派联邦机构预测，2019年赤字为8960亿美元，2020年为8920亿美元。
赤字膨胀速度快于预期的消息传出之际，唐纳德·特朗普总统正在考虑——然后逆转——实施工资税和资本收益税削减，这是一个明显的迹象，表明尽管特朗普本人和高级政府官员发表了言论，但白宫担心近期可能出现衰退。此举几乎肯定会进一步增加赤字。
然而，特朗普周三反悔，称他“现在不考虑减税”。我们不需要它。我们的经济很强劲。”这些言论与他不到24小时前向记者发表的言论完全相反，当时他说自己“已经考虑工资税很长时间了”。
8月15日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在新罕布什尔州曼彻斯特市SNHU竞技场的“保持美国伟大”竞选集会上发表讲话。
膨胀的预算赤字预测也是在大规模两党预算协议除了特朗普2017年的减税政策对联邦收入产生影响之外，国会和特朗普政府本月早些时候达成的协议将在未来两年增加数千亿美元的军费和其他支出，从而增加赤字。CBO此前曾计划出台新法律企业减税永久有效对于临时的个人来说，到2028年将会增加近2万亿美元的赤字。
2016年时任候选人特朗普一旦承诺去华盛顿邮报他将能够在“八年内”消除国债。
特朗普周三还继续指责他精心挑选的美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔(Jerome Powell)，称他“[加息太快、太愤怒”
CBO报告进一步预测，由于对商业投资的影响，特朗普对中国商品征收的关税将使美国2020年国内生产总值下降0.3%，2020年至2029年间，美国的年均赤字将达到1.2万亿美元。
US BUDGET DEFICIT WILL BREACH $1 TRILLION TWO YEARS EARLIER THAN PREDICTED
he federal budget deficit is projected to reach more than $1 trillion for the 2020 fiscal year, a figure that would arrive two years sooner than previously predicted, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released Wednesday.
This fiscal year, which ends September 30, will see a deficit of about $960 billion, a figure that CBO says will likely climb to at least $1 trillion for fiscal year 2020. Previously, the non-partisan federal agency that provides budget and economic information to Congress forecasted the deficit to be $896 billion for 2019 and $892 billion for 2020.
The news of a deficit that is ballooning faster than expected comes amid President Donald Trump's consideration—and then reversal—to implement payroll and capital gains tax cuts, a clear sign that, despite rhetoric from Trump himself and senior administration officials, the White House is concerned about the possibility of a recession in the near future. The move would almost certainly further raise the deficit.
However, Trump backtracked Wednesday, stating he's "not looking at a tax cut now. We don't need it. We've got a strong economy." The remarks were a complete reversal from comments he made to reporters less than 24 hours earlier, where he said he's "been thinking about payroll taxes for a long time."
President Donald Trump speaks at a "Keep America Great" campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 15.
The inflated budget deficit forecast also comes after a massive bipartisan budget deal between Congress and the Trump administration earlier this month that will increase the deficit by raising military and other spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next two years, in addition to Trump's 2017 tax cuts having an impact on federal revenue. The CBO has previously projected the new law, which made tax cuts for corporations permanent and for individuals temporary, will add nearly $2 trillion to the deficit by 2028.
Then-candidate Trump in 2016 once promised to the Washington Post he would be able to eliminate the national debt "over a period of eight years."
Trump on Wednesday also continued to berate his handpicked Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, for "[raising interest] rates too fast, too furious."
The CBO report further predicted Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods will deflate U.S. gross domestic product by 0.3 percent in 2020 thanks to an impact on business investments and that there would be a per year average deficit of $1.2 trillion between 2020 and 2029.
