1.Earlier this year, the U.S. government spent $2 trillion, a record amount of money, to do what?

SO HERE WE ARE, Thursday morning, the government shuts down Friday, and we haven’t seen a word of the $1 trillion-plus in government spending and nearly $1 trillion in Covid relief. Both of …

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2020/12/17/wheres-the-2-trillion-in-spending-491179

2.Earlier this year, the U.S. government spent $2 trillion, a record amount of money, to do what?

The deficit last year was about $1 trillion, which represented an elevated level but pales in comparison with this year’s tally. For 2020, the government spent $6.552 trillion, up from $4.447 …

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/10/16/2020-budget-deficit-coronavirus/

3.Earlier this year, the U.S. government spent $2 trillion, a record amount of money, to do what?

U.S. states are claiming that opioid manufacturers, distributors, and others who fueled the country’s decades-long opioid crisis will cost the economy at least $2.15 trillion by the year 2040.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/opioid-crisis-2-trillion-states-194653397.html

4.Earlier this year, the U.S. government spent $2 trillion, a record amount of money, to do what?

The $2.7-trillion spending plan raises the nation’s debt ceiling and caps on federal spending. Some Republicans oppose raising the spending caps.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-01/senate-two-year-trillion-dollar-government-spending-bill

5.Earlier this year, the U.S. government spent $2 trillion, a record amount of money, to do what?

As of 30 September 2020, we find that the Federal Reserve directly holds over $4.445 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities, up $2.338 trillion from the $2.108 trillion it held a year earlier. Uncle …

https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2020/10/20/to-whom-does-the-us-government-owe-money-n2578440

6.Earlier this year, the U.S. government spent $2 trillion, a record amount of money, to do what?

The U.S. government is on pace to spend roughly $6.6 trillion in the fiscal year that concludes at the end of this month, an approximately $2.2 trillion increase from the year before, the CBO said….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/02/government-debt-economy-coronavirus/

7.Earlier this year, the U.S. government spent $2 trillion, a record amount of money, to do what?

The U.S. government spent $6,551,872,000,000 in fiscal year 2020 that ended on September 30th. It was a record year, although not in a good way. Spending represented a jump of more than $2 trillion…

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertberger/2020/10/18/5-big-numbers-reveal-the-unsettling-scope-of-stimulus-spending/

8.Earlier this year, the U.S. government spent $2 trillion, a record amount of money, to do what?

Congressional leaders are discussing a new round of coronavirus assistance, potentially half of the $2 trillion package approved earlier this year, but “you can only go to that well so many times …

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2020/12/04/iowa-farmers-end-year-higher-income-thanks-federal-subsidies-covid-relief/6476298002/

9.Earlier this year, the U.S. government spent $2 trillion, a record amount of money, to do what?

As of October 2018, foreigners owned $6.2 trillion of U.S. debt, or approximately 39 percent of the debt held by the public of $16.1 trillion and 28 percent of the total debt of $21.8 trillion. As of August 2020, the largest foreign holders [9] were Japan ($1.278 trillion), China ($1.068 trillion), United Kingdom ($419 billion), and Ireland …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States

10.Earlier this year, the U.S. government spent $2 trillion, a record amount of money, to do what?

Current U.S. government spending is $4.829 trillion.   That’s the federal budget for the fiscal year 2021 covering Oct. 1, 2020, to Sept. 30, 2021. It’s 20.7% of gross domestic product according to the Office of Management and Budget Report for FY 2021.

https://www.thebalance.com/current-u-s-federal-government-spending-3305763