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FY12 Federal Budget Spending Estimates
for Fiscal Years 2011 - 2016

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	US Federal Government FY 12 Budget Spending Estimates as of Winter 2011 in $ billion

				Spending Estimates from US Federal FY12 Budget
Change View: people default radical census COFOG				FY 2011  Spending	FY 2012  Spending	FY 2013  Spending	FY 2014  Spending	FY 2015  Spending	FY 2016  Spending
[+]	Pensions			793.2	805.6	854.5	901.4	950.5	1,007.8
[+]	Health Care			882.0	866.1	920.0	1,042.2	1,129.9	1,233.0
[–]	Education			129.8	121.1	118.1	118.0	123.4	128.7
	[+]	Pre-primary thru secondary education		78.2	49.9	42.7	42.6	42.6	42.7
	[+]	Tertiary education		0.8	22.3	27.0	28.8	34.5	40.1
	[+]	Education not definable by level		50.8	48.8	48.3	46.6	46.3	45.9
	[+]	Subsidiary services to education		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	[+]	R&D Education		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	[+]	Education n.e.c.		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
[+]  Charts: Click on a to display a bar of data in a row or column of this table. Click on to display a time-series chart of data in a row. [+] Drill-down: Click on the [+] to drill down to more detailed numbers. For federal spending line items (but not revenue) you can drill down three levels to view about 4,000 items of spending at the “agency code” level.	Defense			964.8	925.2	868.1	863.5	878.5	901.8
[+]	Welfare			495.6	431.5	405.4	389.0	378.7	380.3
[+]	Protection			60.7	58.7	58.1	57.8	57.8	60.6
[+]	Transportation			94.5	104.9	110.3	112.1	114.2	117.6
[+]	General Government			33.2	32.6	29.2	30.5	28.7	34.7
[+]	Other Spending			158.4	141.5	86.4	45.1	33.7	41.0
[+]	Interest			206.7	241.6	321.0	417.5	494.3	562.2
[+]	Balance			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
[+]	Total Spending			3,818.8	3,728.7	3,770.9	3,977.1	4,189.8	4,467.8
[+]	Federal Deficit			1,645.1	1,101.2	767.5	644.6	606.7	648.7
[+]	Gross Public Debt			15,476.2	16,654.3	17,750.5	18,761.2	19,775.5	20,825.0
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Data Sources: Federal spending from Budget of the United States Government.

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On February 13, 2012, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the historical tables in the FY13 federal budget. Actual revenue for FY 2011 and estimated revenue through FY 2017 come from Tables 2.1, 2.4, and 2.5. Actual spending for FY 2011 and estimated spending at the subfunction level through FY 2017 comes from Table 3.2. Federal debt estimates come from Table 7.1 and GDP estimates come from Table 10.1.

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