TREE NEWS reports: The US Treasury reported a fiscal 2026 budget deficit of $1.992 trillion, up from $1.775 trillion in fiscal 2025. Total debt interest costs hit a record $1.36 trillion, up $144 billion or 12% year over year. Net tariff revenue fell to $173.22 billion from $194.87 billion, and September’s deficit was $27 billion versus a $198 billion surplus a year earlier.
US FY2026 Budget Gap Widens to $1.99T as Debt Interest Hits Record $1.36T
AI take
The composition of the shortfall is the real story: interest costs are now consuming a rising share of federal spending, and at 12% growth they are compounding faster than the deficit itself. That trajectory, not the headline gap, is what hard-asset and RWA markets tend to price against, since it feeds the structural case for assets outside the sovereign debt complex. The tariff revenue decline cuts the other way, removing a newer source of offset. Whether interest growth keeps outpacing revenue is the open question worth tracking.
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