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The federal budget deficit is projected to be $2.3 trillion in fiscal 2021, the Congressional Budget Office said. That’s smaller than 2020 shortfall of $3.13 trillion but larger than anything the nation had seen prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. Federal debt will swell to $35.3 trillion in 2031, it said, the largest debt-to-GDP ratio in U.S. history.