{"id":437957,"date":"2026-09-12T01:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T18:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-august-federal-budget-deficit-167-billion-vs-404-billion-expected-437957\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T18:03:50","slug":"us-august-federal-budget-deficit-167-billion-vs-404-billion-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-august-federal-budget-deficit-167-billion-vs-404-billion-expected-437957\/","title":{"rendered":"US August Federal budget deficit $167 billion vs $404 billion expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The $432 billion deficit last month was near a monthly record but it seems as though much of that spending was pulled forward from August as the latest month shows a nice bounce.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fiscal Year to date deficit at $1.966 trillion verus $1.973 trillion a year ago<\/li>\n<li>Outlates $527 billion vs $689 billion a year ago<\/li>\n<li>Receipts $360 billion vs $344 billion a year ago<\/li>\n<li>Net cutoms receipts of $12.836 billion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This number could tad some of the pressure of Treasuries but the month-to-month numbers are tough to get a read on because spending shifts around.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $432 billion deficit last month was near a monthly record but it seems as though much of that spending was pulled forward from August as the latest month shows a nice&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}