If you are filing married filing separately, you both have to itemize or you both have to use standard deduction. it cannot be one of each. So if you are itemizing and using up all the itemized deductions yourself, your spouse will not even get her standard deduction amount. She might have to pay tax on ALL of her own income.
If you are seeing a standard deduction for your spouse, you have done something incorrectly. When you chose to file married filing separately, if you said that you would itemize on your return, it should "lock in" itemizing for your spouse too. You will have to go back and see what you missed on those screens when you chose MFS for each of your returns.
Click edit by your names in My Info on each return and go through slowly and carefully.
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