How to Use deficit spending in a Sentence

deficit spending

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  • So much for the idea that deficit spending is a stimulant.
    — Stephen Moore, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2018
  • Its remedies include a mix of greater deficit spending, tax cuts and easier credit.
    — Lingling Wei, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2019
  • The case for more aggressive deficit spending in the world’s third-largest economy rests on some confounding facts.
    — Kosaku Narioka, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2019
  • Berri, the sports economist, sees other reasons for rosy forecasts and deficit spending in college sports.
    — Christopher Schnaars, USA TODAY, 28 June 2018
  • Lopez Obrador says his program can be funded without deficit spending, with the money saved by eliminating graft.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 2 July 2018
  • At the same time, a great deal of the trade deficit is made possible by U.S. government deficit spending, so reining that in could actually reduce the trade deficit.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 9 June 2018
  • Chief among the remedies to prop up growth: increasing deficit spending, launching new tax cuts and other fee reductions for businesses—totaling 2 trillion...
    — Lingling Wei, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2019
  • And his rant proved potent among conservatives who reacted much more aggressively to Obama’s health care plan than to, say, Bush’s massive deficit spending.
    — Jane Coaston, Vox, 15 May 2018
  • After years of deficit spending, the district landed on the state’s financial watch list in 2015 and officials were forced to close one of the district’s schools to cut expenses.
    — Mike Nolan, Daily Southtown, 14 June 2019
  • If anything, in fact, Trump’s policies — namely, the $1.5 trillion tax cut and increase in deficit spending — might be pushing the Fed to act more aggressively.
    — Emily Stewart, Vox, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Paul has waged a lengthy battle against federal deficit spending — triggering a brief government shutdown in February by holding up a spending bill vote from the Senate floor.
    — Morgan Lee, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
  • In 1978 West Germany agreed to stimulate its economy with deficit spending to help the U.S. narrow its trade deficit.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 20 June 2018
  • 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
  • And yes, this is where the hot-button issue of deficit spending and the debt level come into play.
    — Amy Wagner and Steve Hruby, The Enquirer, 10 May 2024
  • 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
  • That’s a good thing in the short term, but avoiding worst-case scenarios via hefty deficit spending comes at a cost for future generations, in Spitznagel’s view.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2024

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