US Federal Budget Spending Estimate vs. Actual for FY2012

US Federal Government Outlays
Budget vs. Actual for FY 2012 in $ billion

		Estimates for FY 2012 Federal Outlays in US Budgets
		Estimate in FY08 Budget	Estimate in FY09 Budget	Estimate in FY10 Budget	Estimate in FY11 Budget	Estimate in FY12 Budget	Estimate in FY13 Budget	Actual 2012
	Pensions	837.3	812.0	800.8	814.9	805.6	819.7	811.6
	Health Care	840.7	806.4	894.5	878.5	866.1	846.1	818.5
	Education	101.6	103.9	138.6	131.6	121.1	153.1	103.3
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	677.1	699.0	807.1	863.9	925.2	902.2	839.3
	Welfare	288.9	294.7	394.5	438.5	431.5	451.9	419.0
	Protection	47.3	48.6	54.6	59.2	58.7	62.0	56.3
	Transportation	75.6	66.0	86.5	98.2	104.9	102.6	93.0
	General Government	23.1	23.1	26.7	29.8	32.6	33.6	30.0
	Other Spending	69.8	68.3	80.8	97.4	141.5	199.6	135.1
	Interest	284.9	299.9	348.8	342.9	241.6	224.8	220.4
	Balance	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-544.6
	Total Spending	3,246.3	3,221.8	3,632.8	3,754.9	3,728.7	3,795.6	3,526.6
	Federal Deficit	-61.0	-48.1	557.4	828.5	1,101.2	1,327.0	1,076.6
	Gross Public Debt	11,487.3	11,868.1	16,565.7	15,484.3	16,654.3	16,350.9	16,050.9
	Other Borrowing	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	210.1
	Agency GSE Debt	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	7,535.4
	Grants	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	544.6
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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.

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:	$39,219,582,387,346.71
Debt 2/2020:	$23,409,959,150,243.63

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Gross State Product for 2025

The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its Gross State Product (GSP) data for 2025 on April 9, 2026.

Usgovernmentspending.com has updated its individual state GSPs for 2025 for each state using the projected national GDP numbers from Table 10.1 in the Historical Tables for the Federal FY2027 Budget and the historical GDP data series from the BEA as a baseline.

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