US Spent A Record $4 Trillion In Fiscal 2017, Pushing Deficit To $666 Billion
October 20, 2017 at 18:00 PM EDT
The Treasury reported that with outlays of $341 billion in the last month of the fiscal year, offset by $349 billion in receipts, the full year deficit grew to a nice, round and very memorable $666 billion in fiscal 2017.