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Went down. for the second year in a row, the u.s. treasury will have to borrow at least $1 trillion to pay for the growing budget deficit. why is the deficit growing? the government spends more than it takes in. it increased the deficit by $300 billion. the u.s. deficit rose 17% to $779 billion last year. the highest since 2012. the u.s. treasury is borrowing to make up that shortfall. the highest borrowing since 2010 and a sharp spike from the $546 billion it borrowed in 2017. don't forget, the u.s. is currently waging a trade war with china. china held $1.1 trillion u.s. treasury bonds. an...

All right. for the second year in a row, the u.s. treasury will have to borrow $1 trillion to pay for the growing budget deficit. why is the deficit growing? well, the government spends more than it takes in. a lot more. the u.s. deficit rose 17% to $779 billion in 2018, the highest level since 2012. so the u.s. treasury department is borrowing more to make up that short fall. the treasury borrowed $4.3 trillion. and a spike from the $546 billion it borrowed in 2016. the u.s. is currently waging a trade war with china. china held $1.4 trillion in

Federal government's money and like the rest of us with big debts it now has to figure out how to pay for the soaring budget deficits. the total national debt issuance for 2018 ran up to a whopping 1.34 trillion with a "t" dollars. the highest annual debt issuance since the u.s. financial crisis. to put this in perspective, the total annual debt issued in 2017 was just $546 billion, marking a nearly 3 fold increase in new debt in 1 year's time. when's behind the surge? reduced tax revenues. remember those? an increase in spending. >> yep. >> after the gop slashed taxes at the end of last year....

Pocket. it has a $546 billion pension fund and up to 30% of that will be invested in the stock market to try to boost some cash into it. there are other options despite some of the dismal numbers coming out, factory numbers low, trade numbers are down. but what the central bank here can do, the central bank could lower interest rates if they want to. there could be government investment and infrastructure, roads, highways, the high speed rail line that they're going to build ahead of the 2022 olympics. a fiscal stimulus, and china continues to crackdown on wasteful spending, inefficiency, gove...

let's get to takoma, washington where dan simon is now. >> reporter: of course the focus is trying to see if there were clues or warning signs that may have caused this army soldier robert bales to carry out this unthinkable rampage. right now there is a lot of speculation whether or not he suffered deep emotional problems after having been to four different battle zones, three in iraq, one in afghanistan. of course, his attorney tells cnn in 2010 he suffered a serious brain injury after his vehicle hit a roadside bomb. that attorney telling cnn that the day before the rampage took p...