US One-Month Receipts Record Set in April; Spending Not in Control
I’ll just put these up without commentary beyond the title because of a time crunch.
The results are derived from April’s final Daily Treasury Statement, along with the April 2008 Monthly Treasury Statement, which was released at 2 PM this afternoon.
Here’s how the receipts came in compared to a year ago:

The $400 billion-plus collected is an alltime one-month record.
Here’s how Uncle Sam’s April collections and spendiing came in, and how the year-to-date situation has turned out thus far:










