President Obama's Monday budget request to Congress will forecast a fiscal year 2012 deficit of $1.33 trillion and will include hundreds of billions of dollars in proposed infrastructure spending, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
The projected deficit is higher than 2011's $1.296 trillion deficit and slightly higher than the Congressional Budget Office's roughly $1.15 trillion projection released last week. The budget, according to draft documents viewed by Dow Jones Newswires and The Journal, will forecast a $901 billion deficit for fiscal 2013, which would be equivalent to 5.5 percent of gross domestic product. That is up from the White House's September forecast of a deficit of $833 billion, or 5.1 percent of GDP, the newspaper said.
According to The Journal, the White House's projected 2012 deficit would be about 8.5 percent of GDP.
Want to stay ahead of the curve? Sign up for National Journal’s AM & PM Must Reads. News and analysis to ensure you don’t miss a thing.
Leave a Comment