c$)$ Let's use a new tool to get a graph of the federal budget deficit for $1999-2023.$ FRED is the Federal Reserve Economic Data system. Here's a direct link that I got by typing "Fred federal deficit" into Google. Your graph should show debt in millions of dollars $($not as a $\%$ of GDP$).$ Adjust the date range and then click download in the upper right. Grab an image, PowerPoint or PDF to include in your exam. Feel free to just submit the PDF$,$ no need to paste it into this document. FRED is great $-$ type FRED and any economic term into Google and you'll probably get a nice graph.

Now write a paragraph summarizing changes in the federal budget deficit over the past $25$ years. We'll explain these changes later, for now just clear, correct descriptions of highs and lows, time periods when the deficit was increasing or decreasing. Careful, big negative numbers mean big deficits so when the graph of the deficit is going down, the actual deficit is going up$.$