{"id":19091,"date":"2026-02-17T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-debt-forecast-to-hit-64t-in-a-decade-as-trump-policies-widen-deficit-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:22:08","slug":"us-debt-forecast-to-hit-64t-in-a-decade-as-trump-policies-widen-deficit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-debt-forecast-to-hit-64t-in-a-decade-as-trump-policies-widen-deficit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US debt forecast to hit $64T in a decade as Trump policies widen deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress&rsquo; nonpartisan scorekeeper predicts that the annual deficit will grow to $3.1 trillion by 2036&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/11\/us-debt-forecast-to-hit-64t-in-a-decade-as-trump-policies-widen-deficit-00775726\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress&rsquo; nonpartisan scorekeeper predicts that the annual deficit will grow to $3.1 trillion by 2036&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}