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What is the Total Government Spending?

In FY 2024, total US government spending, federal, state, and local, is “guesstimated” to be $10.55 trillion.

US Total Government Spending Breakdown
in $ trillion

Most government outlays are spent in just a few functional areas: pensions, health care, education, defense, and welfare.



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Total Government Spending
in the United States
Federal, State, and Local
  Fiscal Year 2010  


 Government Pensions $1.0 trillion   
 Government Health Care + $1.1 trillion   
 Government Education + $0.9 trillion   
 National Defense + $0.8 trillion   
 Government Welfare + $0.7 trillion   
 All Other Spending + $1.4 trillion   
 Total Government Spending $6.0 trillion   
 Federal Deficit + $1.3 trillion   
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Spending Definitions

Government Pensions: Pensions, disability.

Government Health Care: Health care.

Government Education: K-12, college, training.

National Defense: Military, foreign policy, veterans, foreign aid.

Government Welfare: Cash welfare, food stamps, unemployment benefits, workers compensation, housing, excluding health care.

All Other Spending: Police, fire, law courts, prisons; Road, rail, airports; Legislative, executive, finance; Research, economic development, agriculture, energy, environment; Interest on government debt.

Total Government Spending: Federal: total outlays including grants to state and local. State and local: direct spending on programs.

Spending Key:

Total spending: actual, as reported by the Office of Management and Budget and the US Bureau of the Census.

 

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Spending Data Sources

Spending data is from official government sources.

Gross Domestic Product data comes from US Bureau of Economic Analysis and measuringworth.com.

Detailed table of spending data sources here.
Medicare breakdown here; Medicaid breakdown here.

Federal spending data begins in 1792.

State and local spending data begins in 1820.

State and local spending data for individual states begins in 1957.

Gross Federal Debt

Debt Now:  $34,542,838,497,262.94
Debt 2/2020:$23,409,959,150,243.63

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Data Sources for 2010:

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Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances

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On March 11, 2024, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the Public Budget Database in the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2025

Here is how headline budget estimates for the upcoming FY 2024 fiscal year have changed since the release of the FY 2024 budget a year ago in Winter 2023.

Federal Budget Changes for 2024
$ billionEstimate for 2024
in FY2024 Budget
Estimate for 2024
in FY2025 Budget
Change
Federal Outlays$6,371.8$6,940.9 +$569.1
Federal Receipts$4,802.5$5,081.6+$279.1
Federal Deficit$1,569.4$1,859.4+$290.0

You can see line item changes from budget to budget here. You can compare budget estimates with actuals here.

Account level spending estimates through FY 2029 come from the Outlays table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on March 11, 2024.

Account level budget authority estimates through FY 2029 come from the Budget Authority table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on March 11, 2024. 

Agency Debt Update for 2023
On March 11, 2024, usgovernmentspending.com updated its data for agency debt from the Federal Reserve Board database. Data is now available for the period 1945-2023. You can see our Agency Debt pag ...

US GDP for 2023 Updated
On January 19, 2024 usgovernmentspending.com updated its GDP series with the latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, ...

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