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Compare state and local debt for the 50 states against state growth and population.

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Comparison of State and Local Government Spending
in the United States
-5yr -1yr   Fiscal Year 2013  +1yr +5yr
Amounts in percent GDP
StateState
Debt
Local
Debt
State and
Local
Debt
Gross
State
Product
Real
State
Growth
Popu-
lation
(mln)
 Wyoming2.59%2.51%5.10%$39.370.8%0.6 more
 North Dakota3.34%5.15%8.49%$54.882.6%0.7 more
 Idaho5.91%3.76%9.67%$61.714.5%1.6 more
 Oklahoma5.17%5.07%10.24%$184.112.4%3.9 more
 District of Columbia0.00%10.80%10.80%$114.830.4%0.7 more
 North Carolina4.13%7.04%11.18%$460.951.9%9.8 more
 Iowa4.11%7.29%11.40%$162.420.1%3.1 more
 Georgia2.84%8.91%11.76%$467.562.2%10.0 more
 Montana8.07%4.01%12.08%$43.581.8%1.0 more
 Arkansas3.46%8.81%12.27%$114.022.8%3.0 more
 South Dakota7.53%5.35%12.87%$45.50-0.1%0.8 more
 Delaware9.27%4.15%13.43%$62.06-2.7%0.9 more
 Mississippi6.90%6.94%13.84%$103.040.4%3.0 more
 Nebraska1.72%12.20%13.92%$107.251.5%1.9 more
 Virginia6.13%8.12%14.25%$456.911.2%8.3 more
 Maryland7.67%6.76%14.43%$339.900.8%5.9 more
 Utah5.21%9.39%14.60%$135.343.1%2.9 more
 Ohio5.85%8.83%14.68%$566.422.8%11.6 more
 West Virginia10.25%4.85%15.10%$71.761.1%1.9 more
 Maine9.79%5.54%15.33%$54.92-0.3%1.3 more
 Vermont11.30%4.12%15.42%$29.48-1.3%0.6 more
 Minnesota4.39%11.05%15.44%$311.752.7%5.4 more
 Tennessee2.09%13.36%15.45%$296.762.1%6.5 more
 Indiana7.20%8.72%15.91%$313.472.9%6.6 more
 Alabama4.69%11.26%15.95%$193.981.6%4.8 more
 Wisconsin8.17%7.88%16.05%$283.790.9%5.7 more
 Missouri6.83%9.27%16.10%$282.661.9%6.0 more
 New Hampshire12.36%3.76%16.12%$70.901.9%1.3 more
 Alaska10.81%6.09%16.90%$57.53-4.3%0.7 more
 Louisiana8.02%9.33%17.35%$231.65-2.4%4.6 more
 Michigan6.88%10.49%17.37%$441.472.0%9.9 more
 Texas2.60%14.90%17.49%$1,526.785.1%26.5 more
 All states combined6.72%10.80%17.52%$16,953.802.2%316.1 more
 Arizona5.09%12.53%17.62%$278.680.6%6.6 more
 Florida4.62%13.25%17.87%$819.682.6%19.6 more
 Connecticut13.45%4.56%18.01%$240.55-1.8%3.6 more
 Kansas4.71%13.33%18.04%$145.000.4%2.9 more
 Colorado5.62%12.75%18.37%$291.274.2%5.3 more
 New Mexico8.15%10.28%18.43%$88.77-0.7%2.1 more
 New Jersey12.03%6.55%18.58%$534.211.8%8.9 more
 Washington7.31%11.28%18.58%$416.923.1%7.0 more
 California6.85%12.12%18.96%$2,223.303.8%38.3 more
 Pennsylvania7.01%12.05%19.06%$670.772.2%12.8 more
 Hawaii11.15%8.22%19.37%$74.602.3%1.4 more
 Oregon7.60%11.88%19.48%$178.981.2%3.9 more
 Massachusetts15.56%4.24%19.80%$452.580.8%6.7 more
 Illinois8.57%11.44%20.01%$742.890.6%12.9 more
 Nevada2.70%19.42%22.12%$133.591.1%2.8 more
 Kentucky8.10%14.19%22.29%$184.922.4%4.4 more
 South Carolina7.63%14.71%22.35%$186.272.4%4.8 more
 Rhode Island18.06%5.18%23.24%$52.991.0%1.1 more
 New York10.47%15.41%25.88%$1,364.630.4%19.6 more
Notes: actual estimated

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

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On October 16, 2025, the US Treasury reported in its Monthly Treasury Statement (and xlsx) for September that the federal deficit for FY 2025 ending September 30, 2025, was $1,775 billion. Here are the numbers, including total receipts, total outlays, and deficit compared with the numbers projected in the FY 2025 federal budget published in February 2024:

Federal Finances
FY 2025 Outcomes
Budget
billions
Outcome
billions
Receipts $5,485$5,235
Outlays$7,226$7,010
Deficit$1,781$1,775

We use the spending projections from the FY 2025 budget because the Federal government did not publish spending projections in its Budget for Fiscal Year 2026 as originally published in May 2025.

The Monthly Treasury Statement includes "Table 4: Receipts of the United States Government, September 2025 and Other Periods." This table of receipts by source is used for usgovernmentspending.com to post details of federal receipt actuals for FY 2025. usdgovernmentspending.com obtains the data for outlays and receipts from apis at fiscaldata.treasury.gov.

This MTS report on FY 2025 actuals is a problem for usgovernmentspending.com because this site uses Historical Table 3.2--Outlays by Function and Subfunction from the Budget of the United States as its basic source for federal subfunction outlays. But the Monthly Treasury Statement only includes "Table 9. Summary of Receipts by Source, and Outlays by Function of the U.S. Government, September 2025 and Other Periods". Subfunction amounts don't get reported until the FY27 budget in February 2026. Until then usgovernmentspending.com estimates actual outlays by "subfunction" for FY 2025 by factoring subfunction budgeted amounts for FY25 by the ratio between relevant actual and budgeted "function" amounts where actual outlays by subfunction cannot be gleaned from the Monthly Treasury Statement.

Final detailed FY 2025 actuals will not appear on usgovernmentspending.com until the FY 2027 federal budget is published in February 2026 with the actual outlays for FY 2025 in Historical Table 3.2--Outlays by Function and Subfunction.
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