Expenses on Steep Incline

I’m trying to figure out why all of a sudden my monthly profit took a nose dive and my monthly expenses have jumped 9 billion (spread out in healthcare, education, transportation, government, and Defense) since Feb 3922 (8 game months). Before this, my expenses have been on a very slow steady climb, but nothing drastic. Any ideas?
My country is The Commonwealth of Quanobra on Kebir Blue

Well looking at your country you have all your country assets set as private so we cant tell exactly what's going on. But causes of expenses could range from you upped your social security payments, your transportation costs have increased, you increased the size of your army(If you did increase your army your defence costs will increase), since you have two nations in your empire you will experience a higher cost of government, the goods your corporations produce could be in over supply resulting in a decrease in profit, you increased your population which results in a higher health care cost. There could be a few other reasons also but it could be a combination of all of these things which add up. Just a suggestion, lower your defence costs by dismantling your forts and deactivate your defensive army. Your main is always protected unless you want to leave secured mode.