The phrase "create deficit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to finance, economics, or resource management, where one is discussing the act of generating a shortfall or lack of resources.
Example: "The new policy may inadvertently create deficit in the budget, leading to unforeseen challenges."
Alternatives: "generate shortfall" or "incur deficit."
"Regrettably, the Bush plan won't create jobs now, but will create deficits as far as the eye can see".
He said the Legislature's $92.8 billion budget was unbalanced, would worsen the state's financial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression, and create deficits in future years.
Mr. Obama's remarks came a day after the Congressional Budget Office released projections that the White House's tax and spending plans would create deficits totaling $2.3 trillion more during the next decade than the president's budget had projected.
WASHINGTON — The Congressional Budget Office placed a new hurdle in front of President Obama's agenda on Friday, calculating that the White House's tax and spending plans would create deficits totaling $2.3 trillion more than the president's budget projected for the next decade.
It is nothing but grandstanding for members of both parties to vote routinely for legislation that they know will create deficits and then profess shock and horror that the debt limit must be increased as a consequence.
"We can't keep creating deficits, then making cuts and then creating more deficits and more cuts".
He even voted for some of my budgets, which have created deficits as far as the eye can see!
And yet, EU citizens are learning to hate the Greeks, but not the system that creates deficits and debts in the European periphery.
"The president's own fiscal policies, especially his tax cuts, have created deficits so large that they now tie his own hands," said Thomas S. Kahn, staff director for Democrats on the House Budget Committee.
However, sooner rather than later, these measures lost their effectiveness, and in the absence of long-term measures, social unrest increased while the costs created deficits.
