Mengenai defisit pada kwartal I 2007, Sri Mulyani menyatakan, pada kwartal pertama pemerintah telah menerbitkan surat utang termasuk obligasi valas, obligasi ritel, dan surat utang reguler, sehingga pembiayaan pemerintah dalam posisi surplus.
On the deficit in the state budget in the first quarter of 2007, the minister said during the period the government had issued foreign currency bonds, retail bonds and regular state debentures, leading to a surplus in state funds.