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What is the Total Government Spending?
In FY 2026, total US government spending, federal, state, and local, is “guesstimated” to be $13.56 trillion.
US Total Government Spending Breakdown
in $ billion
Most government outlays are spent in just a few functional areas: pensions, health care, education, defense, and welfare.
Total Government Spending | |||
| Government Pensions | $86 billion |  | |
| Government Health Care | + $59 billion | | |
| Government Education | + $107 billion | | |
| National Defense | + $114 billion | | |
| Government Welfare | + $72 billion | | |
| All Other Spending | + $183 billion | | |
| Total Government Spending | $620 billion | | |
| Federal Deficit | + $74 billion | | |
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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.
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Total spending: interpolated between actual reported values, interpolated between actual reported values
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Spending Data Sources
Spending data is from official government sources.
- Federal spending data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
- All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau.
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.
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Gross Federal Debt
| Debt Now: | $38,380,536,147,996.03 | Debt 2/2020: | $23,409,959,150,243.63 |
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Data Sources for 1976:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: Statistical Abstracts of the United States
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> data update schedule.
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US GDP for 2025 Released
On March 15, 2026 usgovernmentspending.com updated its GDP series with the latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis,
- Click on link.
- Click on "Underlying Detail Tables."
- Click on "view data in XLS or other formats."
- Click on "Section 1 Domestic Product and Income" link
- Save .xlsx file.
GDP, real and nominal, looks like this:
- US GDP source from 1790 to 1928 is calendar GDP from measuringworth.com.
- US GDP source from 1929 to 2025 is calendar GDP from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, under "Supplemental Information and Data"
On January 21, 2026 the US Census Bureau released its US national and state population estimates for July 1, 2025. On February 7, 2026 usgovernmentspending.com updated its US and state popula ...
On January 14, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual report on ...
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