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FY17 Federal Budget Spending Estimates
for Fiscal Years 2016 - 2021

2016   2017   2018   2019   2020   2021  
Units: By default, values are displayed in billions of nominal dollars. By using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select millions of dollars, percent of GDP, percent of federal total, percent of overall total, dollars per capita of population, and thousand dollars per capita of population.
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US Federal Government FY 17 Budget
Estimated Outlays in $ billion nominal
-5yr -1yr   as of Winter 2016   +1yr +5yr
Estimated Outlays from US Federal FY 17 Budget
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FY 2016
 Outlays
FY 2017
 Outlays
FY 2018
 Outlays
FY 2019
 Outlays
FY 2020
 Outlays
FY 2021
 Outlays
[+]  Pensions990.21,028.01,084.81,155.51,225.31,294.4
[+]  Health Care1,121.21,172.51,217.41,313.01,376.51,457.1
[+]  Education126.2120.5133.2141.8149.0154.0
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[+] 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.
Defense829.1853.6835.0847.0859.4873.4
[+]  Welfare383.0392.1402.5415.3422.9431.0
[+]  Protection64.463.963.261.962.963.9
[+]  Transportation92.4100.2108.1115.6123.6129.8
[+]  General Government25.730.629.832.133.735.8
[+]  Other Spending79.283.193.7102.6103.6110.8
[+]  Interest240.0302.7384.6459.5523.0574.2
[+]  Balance0.00.00.00.00.00.0
[+]  Total Spending:  Start chart3,951.34,147.24,352.24,644.34,879.85,124.3
[+]  Federal Deficit615.8503.5453.6549.3534.1552.3
[+]  Gross Public Debt19,433.320,149.420,884.321,695.522,446.723,198.6
Outlays:
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b - budgeted estimate in US FY17 budget
e - estimated by usgovernmentspending.com

Data Sources for 2016:
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1

Data Sources for 2021:
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1


Spending Definitions

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.

Notes

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.

Download Federal Budget Data for 2016-2021

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Spending Data Sources

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.

Gross Federal Debt

Debt Now:  $34,542,838,497,262.94
Debt 2/2020:$23,409,959,150,243.63

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Data Sources for 2016_2021:

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

Sources for 2021:

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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Blog

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.

Federal Budget Changes for 2024
$ billionEstimate 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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