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The three biggest federal programs are health care (including Medicare and Medicaid), pensions (including Social Security), and Defense.
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US Federal Government FY 13 Budget Estimated Outlays in $ trillion nominal | ||
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Estimated Outlays from US Federal FY 13 Budget | ||||||||||
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data is by function. But you can also view data by program or the UN COFOG classification system. | FY 2012 Outlays | FY 2013 Outlays | FY 2014 Outlays | FY 2015 Outlays | FY 2016 Outlays | FY 2017 Outlays | ||||
[+] | Pensions | 0.82 | 0.88 | 0.93 | 0.98 | 1.04 | 1.09 | |||
[+] | Health Care | 0.85 | 0.92 | 1.04 | 1.12 | 1.21 | 1.25 | |||
[+] | Education | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.12 | |||
[+] 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 | 0.90 | 0.90 | 0.80 | 0.78 | 0.79 | 0.81 | |||
[+] | Welfare | 0.45 | 0.42 | 0.40 | 0.40 | 0.40 | 0.39 | |||
[+] | Protection | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | |||
[+] | Transportation | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | |||
[+] | General Government | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | |||
[+] | Other Spending | 0.20 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.09 | |||
[+] | Interest | 0.22 | 0.25 | 0.31 | 0.39 | 0.48 | 0.57 | |||
[+] | Balance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
[+] | Total Spending: Start chart | 3.80 | 3.80 | 3.88 | 4.06 | 4.33 | 4.53 | |||
[+] | Federal Deficit | 1.33 | 0.90 | 0.67 | 0.61 | 0.65 | 0.61 | |||
[+] | Gross Public Debt | 16.35 | 17.55 | 18.50 | 19.43 | 20.39 | 21.33 | |||
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Pensions: Pensions, disability.
Health Care: Health care.
Education: K-12, college, training.
Defense: Military, foreign policy, veterans, foreign aid.
Welfare: Cash welfare, food stamps, unemployment benefits, workers compensation, housing, excluding health care.
Protection: Police, fire, law courts, prisons.
Transportation: Road, rail, airports.
General Government: Legislative, executive, finance.
Other Spending: Research, economic development, agriculture, energy, environment.
Interest: Interest on government debt.
Total Spending: Federal: total outlays including grants to state and local. State and local: direct spending on programs.
The table shows overall budgeted federal outlays for major functions for the next five years, as estimated in the historical tables in the current presidential budget.
You can change the budget to be analyzed or drill down to view more detailed spending information.
But. For the “default” and “programs” views, we have extracted data from the Public Budget Database to expand Social Security and Medicare beyond the single line item each gets in Table 3.2. The Public Budget Database starts publishing six years of estimated outlays with the FY10 budget, so this page will only provide a full six years of estimated outlays starting with the FY10 budget.
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.
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Spending data is from official government sources.
Gross Domestic Product data comes from US Bureau of Economic Analysis and measuringworth.com.
Detailed table of spending data sources here.
Medicare breakdown here; Medicaid breakdown here.
Federal spending data begins in 1792.
State and local spending data begins in 1820.
State and local spending data for individual states begins in 1957.
Debt Now: | $34,552,930,923,742.92 | Debt 2/2020: | $23,409,959,150,243.63 |
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Sources for 2012:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
Sources for 2017:
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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On March 11, 2024, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the Public Budget Database in the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2025.
Here is how headline budget estimates for the upcoming FY 2024 fiscal year have changed since the release of the FY 2024 budget a year ago in Winter 2023.
$ billion | Estimate for 2024 in FY2024 Budget | Estimate for 2024 in FY2025 Budget | Change |
Federal Outlays | $6,371.8 | $6,940.9 | +$569.1 |
Federal Receipts | $4,802.5 | $5,081.6 | +$279.1 |
Federal Deficit | $1,569.4 | $1,859.4 | +$290.0 |
You can see line item changes from budget to budget here. You can compare budget estimates with actuals here.
Account level spending estimates through FY 2029 come from the Outlays table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on March 11, 2024.
Account level budget authority estimates through FY 2029 come from the Budget Authority table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on March 11, 2024.
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