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Comparison of State and Local Government Spending and Debt
in the United States
-5yr -1yr   Fiscal Year 2009  +1yr +5yr
Amounts in $ per capita
StateState &
Local
Spending
State &
Local
Debt
Gross
State
Product
Real
State
Growth
Popu-
lation
(mln)
 Alaska$20,825.9$14,493.0$71,822.210.1%0.7 more
 Delaware$10,576.2$9,300.4$65,222.55.2%0.9 more
 New York$14,259.6$15,215.5$59,130.13.9%19.5 more
 North Dakota$9,386.7$6,294.0$49,950.82.7%0.6 more
 South Dakota$7,988.6$6,838.4$45,215.22.3%0.8 more
 New Mexico$10,534.2$8,064.0$41,121.82.0%2.0 more
 Louisiana$10,688.0$7,682.6$45,883.42.0%4.5 more
 Nebraska$10,462.5$7,588.9$48,605.40.1%1.8 more
 West Virginia$8,005.0$5,426.3$35,191.1-0.1%1.8 more
 Texas$8,229.7$9,327.9$47,581.1-0.1%24.8 more
 Virginia$8,278.3$7,452.2$52,005.1-0.4%7.9 more
 District of Columbia$21,045.7$16,320.2$167,479.1-0.5%0.6 more
 Maryland$9,604.9$7,169.1$52,335.1-0.6%5.7 more
 Rhode Island$10,182.8$11,145.5$45,240.0-0.9%1.1 more
 New Hampshire$7,975.2$8,323.6$47,601.7-1.0%1.3 more
 Oklahoma$8,156.3$4,963.5$39,959.3-1.3%3.7 more
 Massachusetts$11,091.5$14,802.6$58,991.2-1.4%6.6 more
 Maine$9,043.4$6,012.6$39,028.4-1.8%1.3 more
 Vermont$10,250.4$7,134.5$42,170.6-2.0%0.6 more
 Utah$8,633.4$6,488.4$40,880.6-2.0%2.8 more
 Colorado$9,093.0$10,006.6$49,717.3-2.2%5.0 more
 Iowa$9,414.0$5,141.6$45,578.6-2.3%3.0 more
 Illinois$9,642.6$9,938.2$50,025.0-2.4%12.9 more
 Wyoming$15,366.4$4,146.9$66,662.1-2.5%0.5 more
 Washington$10,876.5$10,010.7$52,511.2-2.6%6.7 more
 Montana$8,704.3$6,243.3$36,800.4-2.6%1.0 more
 Missouri$8,091.3$7,114.3$42,472.3-2.8%6.0 more
 Pennsylvania$9,557.8$9,464.9$46,111.0-3.0%12.6 more
 Wisconsin$9,335.6$7,289.7$43,560.4-3.1%5.7 more
 All states combined$9,735.9$8,837.6$47,063.7-3.1%307.0 more
 Arkansas$7,156.1$4,491.8$33,841.7-3.3%2.9 more
 Alabama$8,743.7$5,861.8$36,289.3-3.4%4.7 more
 Hawaii$11,015.1$8,875.2$49,772.5-3.5%1.3 more
 Kansas$9,163.9$9,482.0$44,718.4-3.6%2.8 more
 Georgia$7,752.9$5,449.9$41,699.8-3.7%9.8 more
 Mississippi$8,887.7$4,553.1$31,293.4-3.7%3.0 more
 California$11,518.8$10,141.3$50,858.3-3.7%37.0 more
 Tennessee$8,379.2$5,799.2$40,173.3-3.8%6.3 more
 North Carolina$8,188.1$5,503.8$44,036.1-3.9%9.4 more
 Minnesota$10,325.1$8,313.4$49,870.6-4.0%5.3 more
 Idaho$7,508.4$3,789.7$35,261.9-4.1%1.5 more
 Oregon$9,817.4$8,697.1$41,647.7-4.3%3.8 more
 South Carolina$9,238.2$8,818.2$35,600.0-4.4%4.6 more
 Connecticut$10,691.4$10,825.6$65,835.4-4.4%3.5 more
 Kentucky$8,341.3$9,111.4$36,494.2-4.5%4.3 more
 New Jersey$11,102.4$10,639.0$55,290.2-4.7%8.7 more
 Ohio$9,358.8$6,547.0$41,966.9-5.1%11.5 more
 Florida$8,658.3$8,006.5$39,881.4-5.8%18.5 more
 Indiana$8,016.9$7,976.5$41,245.6-7.0%6.4 more
 Nevada$8,502.8$9,798.4$46,336.5-8.1%2.6 more
 Arizona$8,172.8$7,372.9$37,124.0-8.2%6.6 more
 Michigan$8,656.7$8,031.4$37,283.6-8.6%10.0 more
Notes: actual interpolated

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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Federal Deficit, Receipts, Outlays Actuals for FY 2025

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.

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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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