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A budgetary situation when the expenses incurred by the government are over and above the tax revenues taken in. Also called Federal Debt.
Facebook Twitter. The national debt - aka the federal debt - is the total of all the past years' budget deficits, minus what the government has paid off with budget surpluses. Deficits are common: in the last half century, the federal government has run a deficit in 45 out of 50 years.