The federal government will have raked in almost $3.3 trillion in revenue after fiscal 2016 tax receipts reach a new high, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The Washington Examiner has the details:

The feds raked in more than $3.268 trillion for the year, the agency reported in its monthly budget review, $19 billion more than the previous record set in 2015. The fiscal year, which runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, ended on Friday.

The difference is negligible, at less than one percent, and if inflation is taken into account, the titleholder is still 2015. The feds collected $3.301 trillion in inflation-adjusted receipts that year.

However, cause for optimism diminishes when the deficit is taken into account. The feds spent $588 billion more than they took in this year, compared to $439 billion in fiscal 2015. The figure came to over $50 billion more than estimates projected at the beginning of the year, a problem economists attributed to weaker revenue than they expected.

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