US budget deficit cut in half to $1.38T as pandemic spending slows down

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The U.S. federal budget deficit fell by half for the 2022 financial year as once-aggressive pandemic relief spending dried up, the Treasury Department said on Friday. 

The gap between what the government spent and what it collected tumbled to $1.375 trillion at the end of September, down from the 2021 deficit of $2.776 trillion. 

The decline would have been steeper if it were not for the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan: Education Department spending for the year totaled $639.4 billion, $408 billion higher than the estimate.

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