IMF Urges US to Cut Deficit, Tackle Rising Debt - Senior Official

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2025-05-21

MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath has called on the United States to shrink its fiscal deficit and address its ballooning debt burden in a Wednesday interview with the Financial Times. "The US fiscal deficits are too large and they need to be brought down," she said. Gopinath also insisted that "it should be that we have fiscal policy in the US that is consistent with bringing debt to GDP down over ti......

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