Government Receipts and Expenditures: First Quarter of 2020.

In this article the author talks about net government saving, the difference between current receipts and current expenditures in the federal government and state and local governments, was in the first quarter of 2020, decreases in the fourth quarter of 2019. It mentions the views that Government social benefits to persons accelerated in the first quarter, reflecting a cost-of-living adjustment that boosted benefits for social security, veterans' pensions, and supplemental security income.