Increased to $706bn or 3.6% of GDP already.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-federal-budget-gap-widensas-fiscal-income-declines-1520899411?mod=e2tw
As usual, the fake budget balancers have nothing to say. The not-very-hidden agenda, of course, is to create a deficit via tax cuts, then to use the deficit to promote cuts to the now "unaffordable" support of the vulnerable, which is what Republicans mean when they say life is sacred.
One time, they will pull this trick and they will inherit the whirlwind. Gross inequality favouring the 0.01% has never ended well. The larger population usually discovers the aristocracy is also vulnerable and can be made to suffer.
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