Home / BusinessBusinessCNBCBusinessCNBC·Aug 20, 2026·1 min readBessent says there's a 'very good chance' U.S. budget deficit under Trump has peakedTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that there's a "very good chance" of the U.S. has seen its budget deficit peak under President Donald Trump.View original source — CNBC ↗ShareCopy linkShare on XShare on FacebookRelated storiesBusinessBloombergBusinessAug 20, 2026 · 1 minOpen Machine CEO on Anthropic, OpenAI IPO PotentialBloombergBusinessABC NewsBusinessAug 20, 2026 · 1 minLive: US markets down amid plan to 'collapse' Iran's economy, ASX to followABC NewsBusinessSouth China Morning PostBusinessAug 20, 2026 · 1 minAs China shows, liberal capitalism is not the only pathSouth China Morning PostBusinessBloombergBusinessAug 20, 2026 · 1 minAnthropic Set to Add Citigroup to Top IPO Banks on Mega-ListingBloomberg
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