US Treasury says April-June borrowing will be a record $2.99 amid COVID-19 pandemic

The rising coronavirus cases has led to economic paralysis which is forcing the U.S. Treasury to borrow far more than it ever has before — $2.99 trillion in the current quarter alone. The amount is more than five times the government’s previous record borrowing for a quarter, $569 billion, set in the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. It also dwarfs the $1.28 trillion the government borrowed in the bond market for all of 2019.

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