 Complete the following phrase:  In contrast, from FY 19972001, gross revenues exceeded expenditures and a surplus resulted. However, it has been argued that this balanced budget only constituted a surplus in the public debt or on-budget, in which the Treasury Department borrowed increased tax revenue from intragovernmental debt holdings namely the Social Security Trust Fund, thus adding more interest on Treasury bonds. In effect, the four year surplus was only in public debt holdings, while the National Debt Outstanding increased every fiscal year the lowest deficit in FY 2000 was 17.9 Billion However, after a combination of the dot-com bubble burst, the September 11 attacks, a dramatic increase in government spending primarily in defense for military operations in Afghanistan and 