Past Deficits - Perspective
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Budget Deficits by Fiscal Year Since 1960:
Budget Deficits by Fiscal Year Since 1960:
- President Barack Obama: First Term = $5.073 trillion
- President George W. Bush: Two Term Total = $3.294
- President Bill Clinton: Two Term Total = $63 billion surplus
- President George H.W. Bush: First Term = $1.03 trillion
- President Ronald Reagan: Two Term Total = $1.412 trillion
- President Jimmy Carter: First Term = $253 billion
- President Gerald Ford: Three Years = $181 billion
- President Richard Nixon: First Term = 1+ Term Total = $70 billion
- President Lyndon B. Johnson: Six Year Total = $42 billion
- President John F. Kennedy: Two Years in First Term = $11 billion
- President Dwight Eisenhower Total = $16 billion
- President Harry Truman: Total = $3 billion
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Total = $196 billion
- FY 1789 - FY 1913 - $24 billion surplus. (Source: OMB, Table 1.1—Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits: 1789–2017)