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Notes
Data Sources: Federal spending from Budget of the United States Government.
For a discussion of the sources of the government spending data used here read How We Got the Data for usgovernmentspending.com.
Budget Updates: The president’s budget is typically published each year in February.
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| Estimate in budget for | GDP-US $ billion nominal | Population-US million | Social Security -fed $ billion | |
| FY21 | 29340.3 | 343.448 | 1,445.2 | b |
| FY22 | 29340.3 | 343.448 | 1,416.0 | b |
| FY23 | 29340.3 | 343.448 | 1,488.3 | b |
| FY24 | 29340.3 | 343.448 | 1,559.6 | b |
| FY25 | 29340.3 | 343.448 | 1,549.7 | b |
| FY26 | 29340.3 | 343.448 | 1,549.7 | b |
| HIST | 29340.3 | 343.448 | 1,549.7 | b |
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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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| Debt Now: | $38,380,536,147,996.03 | Debt 2/2020: | $23,409,959,150,243.63 |
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Data Sources for 2025:
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Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
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Medicaid Update for FY2024
On January 14, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual report on National Health Expenditures and its NHE Tables includes data on Medicaid from 1960 to 2023. On January 15, 2026, usgovernmentspending.com updated its Medicaid data.
| Item | 2024 Estimate | 2024 Actual |
| Federal Medicaid | $567.2 bn | $567.2 bn |
| State Medicaid (net) | $124.4 bn | $253.2 bn |
| Total Medicaid | $691.6 bn | $820.4 bn |
The federal Medicaid number comes from the Federal Budget Subfunction 558: Grants to states for Medicaid. The state contribution comes from the NHE Tables.
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