text:  more money to the federal government that way. In reality, his remark about 2018, I think in nominal terms, there may have been an increase in revenues that year, but it kind of belied the reality of what happened, which was you adjust for inflation and for growth. Revenues were not larger than they were before the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Also, they were lower than had been expected by the Congressional Budget Office the previous year in their forecasts.