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The Deficit and the Debt
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The deficit is the annual amount by which expenditures exceed revenues; the debt is the total the government owes across all years.
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Each year's deficit is a new layer; the debt is the whole stack.
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The budget balanced only briefly, from 1998 to 2000 — deficit is the usual state.