Integrated Brief

Federal Budget Balance (Monthly Surplus or Deficit)

As of 2026-08-01, the Federal Budget Balance (Monthly Surplus or Deficit) stood at -$166.8B, up $265.5B from the prior reading, at the 52nd percentile of the past 5 years. The Monthly Treasury Statement bottom line. The sign is the source's: a NEGATIVE value is a deficit, a positive one a surplus. Single months say very little on their own, because the series is dominated by calendar effects — April usually posts a surplus on tax receipts, and a month whose first day falls on a weekend pulls benefit payments forward into the month before. Read the 12-month rolling sum, or compare a month with the same month a year earlier. Released about eight business days after month end.