A new Congressional Budget Office report says the federal budget deficit in fiscal year 2017 ended Sept. 30 reached $668 billion, approximately $82 billion higher than the shortfall recorded in the previous fiscal year.
MoreA Congressional Budget Office report says the federal budget deficit for the first 10 months of fiscal year 2016 reached $514 billion, about $49 billion higher than the agencyâs shortfall estimates for the same
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