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Show HN: Budgethole.com – Close the US federal deficit yourself

Hacker News•Sun, Aug 23, 2026, 10:24 AM•2 min read

Hi HN, I could never quite grasp the large numbers floating around in the articles and discussions about the federal deficit. So I built BudgetHole. com as a personal side project, a web app that lets you play with 150+ policy options and see how they would affect the federal budget.

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