U.S. federal budget deficit for the current year will exceed $ 1.8 trillion. This is a new assessment of the Budget Bureau of the U.S. Congress, announced at a briefing for staff of the Congress in advance of the official promulgation of the new projections.

According to ITAR – Tass, is now expected excess of expenditure over income due to, first of all, the enormous cost to the U.S. authorities for attempting to lead the country out of severe financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. The cost of many anti-crisis program hundreds of billions of dollars, but tax revenues to the treasury in times of crisis is reduced.

Specialists of the Budget Bureau of the Congress consider that in 2010 the picture will remain bleak. They are now predicting for next year's deficit of almost $ 1.4 trillion. The White House has called the figure at $ 200 billion less.

addition to address the crisis, the administration of Barack Obama put forward a bold and expensive plans to reform the system health care in the United States and to counter global climate change.

In Congress, many wary of proposals for the huge building costs in circumstances where the country is in a dire financial and economic situation. This means that in the voting on budget bills on Capitol Hill may razgoretsya serious inter-political struggle.

Previous record size of budget deficits in the United States was several times less – $ 459 billion reached this level was in the past year.

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