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Federal 2016 Government Spending

There are three levels of governments in the US: federal, state, and local. The following table shows Federal spending. Federal spending includes grants and transfers to state and local governments.

Federal

Federal 2016 Spending by Function

	Function	-yr 2016 +yr
	Total Spending	$3.9 trillion
	Pensions	$1.0 trillion
	Health Care	$1.1 trillion
	Education	$0.1 trillion
	Defense	$0.8 trillion
	Welfare	$0.4 trillion
		Spending: actual estimated

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Note:
1. Federal spending after 2016 is budgeted.
2. State spending after 2014 and local spending after 2013 are “guesstimated” by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years

Data Sources:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years

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Spending by Government Level

Government Spending includes federal, state, and local spending. Intergovernmental transfers represent federal grants and transfers spent by states or local governments on programs at the state or local level.

	2015	2016	2017

Federal Spending	3.7	3.9	4.1
State Spending	1.6	1.6	1.6
Local Spending	1.7	1.8	1.8
Intergovernmental Transfers	-0.6	-0.7	-0.7
Total Spending	6.4	6.6	6.9
Spending: actual budgeted guesstimated² estimated

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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.

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Federal spending data begins in 1792.

State and local spending data begins in 1890.

State and local spending data for individual states begins in 1957.

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Data Sources for 2016:

GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years

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Federal Deficit and Outlay Actuals for FY16

On October 14, 2016, the US Treasury reported in its Monthly Treasury Statement (and xls) for September that the federal deficit for FY 2016 ending September 30 was $587 billion. Here are the numbers, including total receipts, total outlays, and deficit compared with the numbers projected in the FY 2017 federal budget published in February 2016:

Federal Finances FY 2016 Outcomes
	Budget billions	Outcome billions
Receipts	$3,336	$3,267
Outlays	$3,951	$3,854
Deficit	$616	$587

usfederalbudget.us now shows the new numbers for total FY 2016 outlays and receipts on its Estimate vs. Actual page.

The Monthly Treasury Statement includes ""Table 4: Receipts of the United States Government, September 2015 and Other Periods." This table of receipts by source is used for usgovernmentspending.com to post federal receipt actuals for FY 2016.

The Monthly Treasury Statement includes "Table 9. Summary of Receipts by Source, and Outlays by Function of the U.S. Government, September 2016 and Other Periods". This table of outlays by function makes it possible for usgovernmentspending.com to estimate actual outlays by "subfunction" for FY 2016 by factoring budgeted amounts by the difference between budgeted and actual "function" amounts where actual outlays by subfunction cannot be gleaned from the Monthly Treasury Statement.

Final detailed FY 2016 numbers will not appear on usgovernmentspending.com until the FY 2018 federal budget is published in February 2017 with the actual outlays for FY 2016 in Historical Table 3.2--Outlays by Function and Subfunction.