How to Use deficit spending in a Sentence

deficit spending

noun
  • The cash came from where the rest of our chronic deficit spending comes from: the bond market.
    WSJ, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Many won’t be around to face the consequences of deficit spending.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2020
  • As in the past, Koehler revealed a trend toward greater and greater deficit spending.
    cleveland, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The deficit spending set the stage for one of the only significant fights over the bill.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Even with the first-time deficit spending this year, Brunello said the city has a reserve of $6.5 million.
    cleveland, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Italy’s program is paid for by taxpayers—in the form of more deficit spending.
    Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2019
  • That in turn could slow economic growth, which would lead to more deficit spending.
    Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The district is already in deficit spending this year and if changes aren't made soon, Hook said there will be large cuts next school year.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The good news is if there is a national will to break our addiction to deficit spending, there is a way.
    Stephen Moore, Washington Examiner, 6 Feb. 2020
  • So if inflation in prices and housing and in gas is because of deficit spending, that's Trump's fault.
    ABC News, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Such complaints at least serve to check runaway deficit spending.
    Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 26 July 2019
  • The Club for Growth president focused on deficit spending as the problem.
    Tom Benning, Dallas News, 25 June 2020
  • Some economists say more deficit spending could be the help the economy needs.
    Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Notable about all this demand-side faux stimulus in Japan is that a lot of it has been deficit spending.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • This brings us to the second source of inflation: massive deficit spending.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Over the past two decades, the war in Afghanistan has been waged by an all-volunteer military and funded through deficit spending.
    Elliot Ackerman, Time, 31 Aug. 2021
  • But a group of over 150 economists thinks such deficit spending is a great investment.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 July 2020
  • The deficit spending is projected to continue in the coming years.
    cleveland, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Luosa said there are a variety of ways to handle a shortfall to avoid deficit spending.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Johnson also called for Congress to stop the deficit spending and encourage people to get back to work.
    Andrew Kugle, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The tax cuts did temporarily boost growth in 2018 as deficit spending increased.
    Josh Boakand Hope Yen, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2020
  • If that money stops coming in, that will mean either a cut to those programs, more deficit spending, or the revenue will have to be made up elsewhere.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • That changed in the mid-20th century with the rise of Keynesian economics, which planted the false idea in Congress that deficit spending boosts growth.
    Chris Edwards, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023
  • High oil prices have hurt Alaska consumers but helped refill state coffers after more than a decade of deficit spending.
    Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Other than for a few years in the late 1990s, the federal government has been deficit spending—spending more than its income.
    Larry Light, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • Last summer, Republican leaders ruled out new gas taxes and deficit spending to pay for the bill.
    Gabriel T. Rubin, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Now some Senate Democrats are already hinting at deficit spending.
    NBC News, 2 May 2021
  • Still, his plan to reign in deficit spending and rising debt is less extreme than some conservatives who want more drastic cuts.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Alaska is in its ninth consecutive year of deficit spending, and a 10th is expected next year.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Yet the state, unlike the federal government, cannot go into deficit spending mode.
    oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2020

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