B-The federal deficit tells you how much more money the government spent in a single year than it received in revenue. The national debt, on the other hand, is the cumulative amount of money that the federal government has borrowed to make up for all those deficits in previous years. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/insider/whats-the-difference-between-the-national-debt-and-the-federal-deficit.amp.html