deficit financing

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The U.S. government borrowed more than $1 trillion, mostly from the Chinese — via deficit financing — to fund the 20-year war in Afghanistan.

From Washington Post

Mayra MacGuiness, president of the Committee for a Responsible Budget, said in a statement that “the strong economic growth projections from CBO show that it is time to pivot away from further deficit financing and towards paying for things and, ultimately, decreasing the national debt from its current path.”

From Seattle Times

Padilla also made a case that the administration could consider not paying for parts of the infrastructure and jobs plan — echoing the view of some other Democrats — although other attendees and people briefed on the meeting said Biden didn’t appear too keen on deficit financing.

From Washington Post

You’ve heard Joe Biden himself say the first bill we’re going to do is going to be expensive and we’re going to pay for it with deficit financing.

From Slate

Strip out, then, the compensatory Keynesian deficit financing stimulus that has obscured many of the real effects, and include similar policy changes at other levels of government, and one is left with nothing but an unmitigated economic policy failure.

From Washington Post