Congressman Blake Moore says 2025 deficit fell, criticizes headline that it "soared"

Congressman Blake Moore criticized a news headline that said federal "deficits soar under Trump," saying the headline emphasized a single month rather than the broader annual picture.

Moore, speaking in a short online video, said he had been "scrolling through some news articles" when one headline caught his attention. "Deficits aren't soaring," he said. Moore said he would share the slide he used in a recent presentation to back up his claim.

He read language from the article that, he said, emphasized a December deficit of $145,000,000,000 and reported that figure was up 67% from the year before. Moore called that focus "misleading," noting the same article also reported that the U.S. budget deficit for calendar year 2025 "shrunk $1,600,000,000,000" and was "the smallest in 3 years," a passage he attributed to a Bloomberg report.

Moore added quarterly context, saying fourth-quarter results were down $110,000,000,000 and that quarterly figures he showed on a slide lead to a $360,000,000,000 comparison. "Budgets go up and down with regards to when revenue comes in," he said, and singled out the contrast between a single-month spike and the annual outcome.

He acknowledged the improvement is not necessarily predictive and said deficits remain "our looming biggest issue as a nation," but described the recent change as "fiscal sanity going in the right direction." Moore closed the video by saying he was "excited to be able to share some of that info" and thanked viewers.

The video is a commentary by Moore and does not present independent audit of the numbers he cited. He said he would share the slides and the data from his recent presentation to support his statements.