WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government had a $176 billion budget deficit in March as spending outstripped revenue, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.
The budget deficit was $108 billion in March 2016, according to Treasury's monthly budget statement.
The fiscal 2017 year-to-date deficit was $527 billion compared with $459 billion in the same period of fiscal 2016.
When accounting for calendar adjustments, the deficit last month was $140 billion. The adjusted deficit for the fiscal year to date was $564 billion.
Receipts last month totaled $217 billion, down 5 percent from March 2016, while outlays stood at $393 billion, an increase of 17 percent from the same month a year earlier.