The 2014 Federal Deficit Is The Smallest Since The 1980s. Will Obama Get Any Credit?

American conservatives" hate Obama

They hate him so much that they court the country's failure 

in hopes that they can kill or maim him.

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Wonkbook’s Number of the Day: $486 billion. That's the federal government's deficit in the 2014 fiscal year. Measured as a share of the economy that's smaller than the average deficit going back to the 1980s.