Congressional Budget Office Releases Monthly Budget Review for October 2017
October 06, 2017
October 06, 2017
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 -- The Congressional Budget Office issued the following monthly budget review:
The federal government ran a budget deficit of $668 billion in fiscal year 2017, the Congressional Budget Office estimates--$82 billion greater than the shortfall recorded in fiscal year 2016. If not for the shift of certain payments from October to September in both 2016 and 2017 (because the first day of the month fell on a weekend), the deficit would have increased by $121 billion in . . .
The federal government ran a budget deficit of $668 billion in fiscal year 2017, the Congressional Budget Office estimates--$82 billion greater than the shortfall recorded in fiscal year 2016. If not for the shift of certain payments from October to September in both 2016 and 2017 (because the first day of the month fell on a weekend), the deficit would have increased by $121 billion in . . .