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Federal Budget Actuals for FY 2014
From US Treasury Monthly Report for September 2014.
Total Federal Outlays: $3.504 trillion
Total Federal Receipts: $3.021 trillion
Federal Deficit: $483 billion
Total Federal Debt: $17.8 trillion
Details of Budgeted vs. Actual Outlays for FY 2014
Budget of the United States Government
Definition: Every year in February the President of the United States is required to send to Congress a budget request for the fiscal year that begins the following October.
FY 15+ Federal Budget also: Revenue Budget
Recent and budgeted headline federal budget numbers in the FY 15+ Budget including overall spending, deficit, and debt.
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FY 15+ Federal Budget: Spending by Function
Recent and budgeted federal spending in the FY 15+ Budget
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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.
Federal Budget in History
in dollars | in percent GDP |
1863 - Gross federal debt exceeded $1 billion for first time. 1865 - Federal spending exceeded $1 billion for first time. 1914 - Federal spending exceeded $1 billion for second time. 1918 - Gross federal debt exceeded $10 billion for first time. 1921 - Bureau of the Budget established by Budget and Accounting Act. 1943 - Gross federal debt exceeded $100 billion for first time. 1970 - Office of Management and Budget created. 1982 - Gross federal debt exceeded $1 trillion for first time. 1987 - Federal spending exceeded $1 trillion for first time. 2009 - Gross federal debt exceeded $10 trillion for first time. | 1792 - Federal debt at 35 percent GDP. 1795 - Federal spending at two percent GDP. 1854 - Federal debt at one percent GDP. 1865 - Federal spending at 13 percent GDP at height of Civil War. 1867 - Federal debt at 32 percent GDP after Civil War. 1907 - Federal spending at 2.2 percent GDP. 1913 - Federal debt at 7.5 percent GDP. 1919 - Federal spending at 24 percent GDP at height of World War I. 1919 - Federal debt at 35 percent GDP after World War I. 1929 - Federal spending at 3.7 percent GDP. 1929 - Federal debt at 16 percent GDP. 1945 - Federal spending at 48 percent GDP at height of World War II. 1946 - Federal debt at 122 percent GDP after World War II. 1951 - Federal spending at 14.4 percent GDP. 1981 - Federal debt at 32 percent GDP. 1982 - Federal spending at 23 percent GDP. 1995 - Federal debt at 66 percent GDP. 2000 - Federal spending at 18 percent GDP. 2009 - Federal spending at 24 percent GDP. 2011 - Federal debt at 97 percent GDP. |
Federal Budget Process
This Budget of the United States Government starts the annual “budget process” that ends when Congress passes and the president signs the annual appropriations bills or continuing resolutions to fund the federal government for another fiscal year.
On this page you can see headline numbers for budgeted spending (or “outlays”), deficits, and also for major spending functions. Click here for details of outlays by function for the next five years. Click here for budget authority by function for the next five years. Click here for Social Security. Click here for Medicare.
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Spending data is from official government sources.
Federal data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
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Sources for 2013:
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Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
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US, State Population Update for 2014
- We updated 2014 population data for US and states using data from US Census Bureau Population Estimates: vintage 2014 in file NST-EST2014-01.xls.
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- We updated 2015 thru 2019 for US using data from US Census Bureau 2012 National Population Projections in file NP2014-T1.xls.
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