The public deficit of the United States was still dug between October and June, compared to the same period of the previous year, despite an increase in the income of customs duties, according to documents published Friday by the Department of the Treasury.
In the first nine months of the Fiscal Year of the United States, the deficit increased by $ 64 billion, reaching $ 1,400 billion, compared to just over 1,300 billion a previous year, an increase of 6%, according to treasure data.
The increase in spending, particularly under the effect of health programs for retirees and low -income Americans, Medicare and Medicaid, partly explains this excavation of the deficit.
Another element is the increase in the cost of US debt, the Government has paid more than $ 920 billion in interest, a record.
Increase in recipes
On the income side, customs income increased from $ 61 billion a year ago to $ 113 billion in the first three quarters of the current fiscal year.
An increase that is explained by the strong increase in customs tasks applied to products that enter the United States, spent on an average of 2.5% effective rate at the end of 2024 to 17.6% on July 1, 2025, according to data from the Laboratory Budget of the University of Yale.
In a Council of Ministers this week, the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, estimated that customs tasks should have brought additional $ 300 billion by the end of the year.
In general, the income of the US federal state increased by 7%, thanks to the best fiscal income caused in particular by an increase in employment and wages.
But the corporate tax has decreased, the companies that prefer to wait to know the conditions provided by the Finance Law approved in early July by Congress.
Source: BFM TV
