Year-Ago Fiscal Deficit Hit Just 0.8% of Annual Target, Setting a Strikingly Low Base

The prior-year comparable period absorbed only 0.8% of its budgeted deficit — far below the typical 20–40% range — flagging a potent base effect that could inflate current-period deficit readings without signalling genuine fiscal slippage.

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