realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city to Finance@thelemmy.club · 1 day ago

Record $16B tariff inflow helped ease the US budget deficit rate

www.foxbusiness.com

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Record $16B tariff inflow helped ease the US budget deficit rate

www.foxbusiness.com

realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city to Finance@thelemmy.club · 1 day ago

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U.S. tariff revenue hit a record $16.3 billion in April, easing the budget deficit rate as President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs took hold.

The April receipts saw the federal government post a $258B budget surplus for April, up 23% from a year earlier

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/record-16b-tariff-inflow-helped-ease-us-budget-deficit-rate

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Wasn’t it Dick Cheney who said “Deficits don’t matter” a while ago?