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SitiWanMahani - Hanya satu hari selepas Presiden Barack Obama
menandatangani undang-undang perjanjian kedua-dua parti untuk menamatkan
penutupan kerajaan dan mengelakkan lalai, hutang Amerika Syarikat melonjak
rekod $328 billion, hari pertama kerajaan mampu untuk meminjam wang.
Mengikat tali pinggang keledar anda, kerana kadar
hutang Amerika Syarikat perlumbaan di luar kawalan dan tiada siapa yang
seolah-olah tahu di mana atau apabila perbelanjaan akan berakhir: Hutang
Amerika Syarikat kini sama $17.075
trillion, menurut perangkaan Jabatan Perbendaharaan disiarkan dalam talian pada
hari Jumaat.
Peningkatan satu hari sebanyak US $ 328 bilion
kepada beban Hutang Amerika Syarikat memecahkan rekod sebelumnya $238 billion
set 2 tahun lalu.
Lompatan besar ke arah apa yang sesetengah ahli
ekonomi takut akan insolvensi akhirnya dipersalahkan kepada kerajaan
menambahkan semula bekalan daripada “langkah-langkah yang luar biasa,” iaitu,
dana persekutuan ia meminjam dari tempoh 5 bulan lepas dalam usaha terdesak
untuk mengelakkan memukul siling hutang.
Di bawah undang-undang, tabung kerajaan diisi semula
apabila terdapat “ruang hutang baru,” menurut satu laporan dalam Washington
Times.
Jabatan Perbendaharaan telah dipaksa di bawah apa
yang dipanggil “langkah-langkah luar biasa” untuk meminjam $400 billion awal
bulan Mei, pada menjangkakan perjanjian antara Kongres dan Obama.
“Biasanya Kongres menetapkan had pinjaman, atau
siling hutang, bahawa had jumlah kerajaan boleh ke merah,” menurut laporan
itu. “Tetapi di bawah syarat-syarat perjanjian minggu ini, Kongres menetapkan
tarikh akhir dan bukannya had dolar. Ini bermakna hutang akan meningkat
sebanyak kerajaan membelanjakan antara sekarang dan tarikh akhir Februari 7.”
Jika kadar perbelanjaan terus kerana ia mempunyai
tempoh 5 bulan lepas, hutang Amerika Syarikat boleh akhirnya sebanyak $700
billion sebelum ia perlu memohon satu lagi peningkatan ke siling hutang.
Republikan , yang dikritik hebat untuk “memegang
tebusan kerajaan” dengan menuntut baik pulih undang-undang penjagaan kesihatan
Obama, susut bermula pada permintaan popular mereka tanpa menuntut apa-apa
pemotongan perbelanjaan.
Pada hari Rabu, Demokrat dan Republikan menolak
melalui undang-undang saat-saat akhir berakhir penutupan kerajaan 16 hari dan
melanjutkan siling hutang sudah tinggi untuk mengelakkan lalai yang akan
mempunyai kesan ekonomi global yang serius.
Standard & Poor berkata pada hari Rabu bahawa
penutupan separa kerajaan Amerika Syarikat, yang pertama dalam tempoh 17 tahun,
sudah dipotong $ 24bn daripada ekonomi Amerika dan akan mencerminkan kelemahan
data ekonomi pada suku ke-4.
US debt
surges $328 billion in single day, surpassing $17 trillion
for first time . . .
Just one day after President Barack Obama signed
into law a bipartisan deal to end the government shutdown and avoid default,
the US debt surged a record $328 billion, the first day the government was able
to borrow money.
Fasten your seatbelt, because the US debt rate is
racing out of control and nobody seems to know where or when the spending will
end: The US debt now equals $17.075 trillion, according to figures the Treasury
Department posted online on Friday.
The one-day increase of $328 billion to the US debt
load smashed the previous record of $238 billion set two years ago.
The huge leap toward what some economists fear will
be eventual insolvency was blamed on the government replenishing its supply of
"extraordinary measures," that is, the federal funds it borrowed from
over the last five months in a desperate effort to avoid hitting the debt
ceiling.
Under the law, government coffers are refilled once
there is “new debt space,” according to a report in The Washington Times.
The Treasury Department was forced under so-called
“extraordinary measures” to borrow $400 billion beginning in May, in
anticipation of an agreement between Congress and Obama.
“Usually Congress sets a borrowing limit, or debt
ceiling, that caps the total amount the government can be in the red,”
according to the report. “But under the terms of this week's deal, Congress set
a deadline instead of a dollar cap. That means debt will rise by as much as the
government spends between now and the Feb. 7 deadline.”
If the rate of spending continues as it has over the
last five months, US debt may eventually by as much as $700 billion before it
must apply for another increase to the debt ceiling.
Republicans, who came under intense criticism for
“holding the government hostage” by demanding an overhaul of Obama’s healthcare
legislation, eased off on their unpopular demands without demanding any
spending cuts.
On Wednesday, the Democrats and Republicans pushed
through last-minute legislation ending a 16-day government shutdown and
extending the already high debt ceiling to avert a default that would have had
serious global economic repercussions.
Standard & Poor's said on Wednesday that the
partial US government shutdown, the first in 17 years, had already trimmed
$24bn from the American economy and would reflect poorly on economic data in
the fourth quarter.
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