The total surplus last year was $236.9 billion, a record.
An additional 70m were released for sale in auctions taking the total surplus to 142m.
The total surplus when he was speaker was $194.9 billion, not $400 billion.
After taking account of the tax cut, the budget office's total surplus projection for next year is about $266 billion.
The total surplus in 2003 would be $195 billion, with $2 billion coming from outside Social Security.
In the last financial year the total surplus over budget at Transport for London was more than £1.3bn.
The new estimate brought the total surplus projection to slightly less than $4.2 trillion for 2001 through 2010.
Germany in 1967 and Japan in 1971 both had a fifth of the world's total surplus, too.
Moreover, there was a surplus of $13 million last year in the other budget lines for fringe benefits, for a total surplus of $51 million.
In February, the administration estimated that the total surplus this year would be $179 billion, including $148 billion from excess Social Security payroll tax revenues.
For example, virtually everyone agrees that Social Security's surpluses -- some $2.5 trillion of the $5.6 trillion total surplus -- should be taken off the table.
