American deficit by president and last 100 years

[dirtydaveiii]

President Donald Trump
Total Actual plus Budgeted = $6.612 trillion, a 33% increase

• FY 2021: $966 billion budgeted + $600 billion from pandemic impact = $1.566 trillion
• FY 2020: $1.083 trillion budgeted + $2.2 trillion from pandemic = $3.283 trillion
• FY 2019: $984 billion
• FY 2018: $779 billion

President Barack Obama
Total = $6.781 trillion, a 58% increase

• FY 2017: $665 billion. Although Trump requested additional spending, Congress did not approve it.
• FY 2016: $585 billion
• FY 2015: $442 billion
• FY 2014: $485 billion
• FY 2013: $680 billion
• FY 2012: $1.077 trillion
• FY 2011: $1.300 trillion
• FY 2010: $1.5 trillion. This is the sum of $1.294 trillion and $253 billion from the Obama Stimulus Act that was attached to the FY 2009 budget.

President George W. Bush
Total = $3.293 trillion, a 57% increase

• FY 2009: $1.16 trillion. This amount is calculated from $1.413 trillion, minus $253 billion from Obama's Stimulus Act.
• FY 2008: $459 billion
• FY 2007: $161 billion
• FY 2006: $248 billion
• FY 2005: $318 billion
• FY 2004: $413 billion
• FY 2003: $378 billion
• FY 2002: $158 billion

President Bill Clinton
Total = $63 billion surplus, a 1% decrease

• FY 2001: $128 billion surplus
• FY 2000: $236 billion surplus
• FY 1999: $126 billion surplus
• FY 1998: $69 billion surplus
• FY 1997: $22 billion
• FY 1996: $107 billion
• FY 1995: $164 billion
• FY 1994: $203 billion

President George H.W. Bush
Total = $1.036 trillion, a 36% increase

• FY 1993: $255 billion
• FY 1992: $290 billion
• FY 1991: $269 billion
• FY 1990: $221 billion

President Ronald Reagan
Total = $1.412 trillion, a 142% increase

• FY 1989: $153 billion
• FY 1988: $155 billion
• FY 1987: $150 billion
• FY 1986: $221 billion
• FY 1985: $212 billion
• FY 1984: $185 billion
• FY 1983: $208 billion
• FY 1982: $128 billion

President Jimmy Carter
Total = $253 billion, a 36% increase

• FY 1981: $79 billion
• FY 1980: $74 billion
• FY 1979: $41 billion
• FY 1978: $59 billion

President Gerald Ford
Total = $181 billion, a 38% increase

• FY 1977: $54 billion
• FY 1976: $74 billion
• FY 1975: $53 billion

President Richard Nixon
Total = $70 billion, a 20% increase

• FY 1974: $6 billion
• FY 1973: $15 billion
• FY 1972: $23 billion
• FY 1971: $23 billion
• FY 1970: $3 billion

President Lyndon B. Johnson
Total = $36 billion, an 11% increase

• FY 1969: $3 billion surplus
• FY 1968: $25 billion
• FY 1967: $9 billion
• FY 1966: $4 billion
• FY 1965: $1 billion

President John F. Kennedy
Total = $18 billion, a 6% increase

• FY 1964: $6 billion
• FY 1963: $5 billion
• FY 1962: $7 billion

President Dwight Eisenhower
Total = $15 billion, a 6% increase

• FY 1961: $3 billion
• FY 1960: $0 billion with a slight surplus
• FY 1959: $13 billion
• FY 1958: $3 billion
• FY 1957: $3 billion surplus
• FY 1956: $4 billion surplus
• FY 1955: $3 billion
• FY 1954: $1 billion

President Harry Truman
Total = $5 billion, a 2% increase

• FY 1953: $6 billion
• FY 1952: $2 billion
• FY 1951: $6 billion surplus
• FY 1950: $3 billion
• FY 1949: $1 billion surplus
• FY 1948: $12 billion surplus
• FY 1947: $4 billion surplus
• FY 1946: $16 billion

President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Total = $194 billion, a 186% increase

• FY 1945: $48 billion
• FY 1944: $48 billion
• FY 1943: $55 billion
• FY 1942: $21 billion
• FY 1941: $5 billion
• FY 1940: $3 billion
• FY 1939: $3 billion
• FY 1938: $0 billion with a slight deficit
• FY 1937: $2 billion
• FY 1936: $4 billion
• FY 1935: $3 billion
• FY 1934: $4 billion

President Herbert Hoover
Total = $5 billion, a 30% increase

• FY 1933: $3 billion
• FY 1932: $3 billion
• FY 1931: $0 billion (slight deficit)
• FY 1930: $1 billion surplus

President Calvin Coolidge
Total = $5 billion surplus, a 26% decrease

• FY 1929: $1 billion surplus
• FY 1928: $1 billion surplus
• FY 1927: $1 billion surplus
• FY 1926: $1 billion surplus
• FY 1925: $1 billion surplus
• FY 1924: $1 billion surplus

President Warren G. Harding
Total = $1 billion surplus, a 6% decrease

• FY 1923: $1 billion surplus
• FY 1922: $0 billion with a slight surplus

 

[Frankfooter]

No wonder all those right wingers are always going on and on about Clinton being the only one good for the economy.