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A comparison of federal outlays for FY 2012 estimated in various federal budgets against the actual outlays in FY 2012.
Estimated vs. Actual Federal Spending
for Fiscal Year 2012 from Federal Budgets
| 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. Fiscal Year: The default year displayed is the current US government fiscal year. But you can select any year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select a year to get close, then select the year you want. You can increase or decrease the year using the “yr” text links in the table heading. | ||
| US Federal Government Outlays Budgeted vs. Actual | ||
| -5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 2012 in $ billion +1yr +5yr | ||
| Estimates for FY 2012 Federal Outlays in US Budgets | |||||||||||
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| [+] | Pensions | 837.3 | 812.0 | 800.8 | 814.9 | 805.6 | 819.7 | 811.6 | 
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| [+] | Health Care | 840.7 | 806.4 | 894.5 | 878.5 | 866.1 | 846.1 | 818.5 |
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| [+] | Education | 101.6 | 103.9 | 138.6 | 131.6 | 121.1 | 153.1 | 103.3 |
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| [+] 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 |
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| [–] | Welfare: Start chart | 288.9 | 294.7 | 394.5 | 438.5 | 431.5 | 451.9 | 419.0 |
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| [+] | Family and children | 200.8 | 205.4 | 269.1 | 292.2 | 266.9 | 275.0 | 269.5 |
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| [–] | Unemployment | 43.8 | 44.4 | 60.8 | 81.7 | 96.3 | 109.0 | 93.8 | | ||
| [–] | Unemployment compensation (603) | 43.8 | 44.4 | 60.8 | 81.7 | 96.3 | 109.0 | 93.8 | | ||
| — | Deposits by Federal agencies to the Federal Employees Compensation Account, Unemployment trust fund | n/a | n/a | -1.0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | | ||
| — | Recovery of Beneficiary Overpayment from the UI Program | n/a | n/a | -0.5 | -0.2 | -0.3 | n/a | n/a | | ||
| — | Payments to the unemployment trust fund | n/a | n/a | 0.0 | 0.0 | 22.2 | 47.6 | n/a | | ||
| — | Federal unemployment benefits and allowances | n/a | n/a | 1.7 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.5 | n/a | | ||
| — | Advances to the unemployment trust fund and other funds | n/a | n/a | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | n/a | | ||
| — | Federal Additional Unemployment Compensation Program, Recovery | n/a | n/a | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| — | Unemployment trust fund | n/a | n/a | 1.2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | | ||
| — | Unemployment trust fund | n/a | n/a | 2.1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | | ||
| — | Unemployment trust fund | n/a | n/a | 55.8 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | | ||
| — | Unemployment trust fund | n/a | n/a | 1.3 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | | ||
| — | Railroad unemployment insurance trust fund | n/a | n/a | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | | ||
| — | Deposits by Federal Agencies to the Federal Employees Compensation Account, Unemployment Trust Fund | n/a | n/a | n/a | -1.0 | -1.2 | -1.3 | -1.4 | | ||
| — | Unemployment Trust Fund | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 0.9 | | ||
| — | Unemployment Trust Fund | n/a | n/a | n/a | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.1 | | ||
| — | Unemployment Trust Fund | n/a | n/a | n/a | 77.2 | 92.3 | 104.5 | 91.6 | | ||
| — | Unemployment Trust Fund | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.4 | | ||
| — | Non-repayable Advances for Unemployment Compensation, Unemployment Trust Fund | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.0 | -0.2 | -0.1 | | ||
| — | Payments from the General Fund for Administrative Cost for Extended Unemployment Benefit, Unemployment Trust Fund | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | -22.2 | -47.6 | n/a | | ||
| — | Deltas between the Annualized CR Amounts and the FY 2013 Budget Request | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.1 | n/a | n/a | | ||
| — | Payments to the Unemployment Trust Fund | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 40.6 | | ||
| — | State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | -0.2 | | ||
| — | Federal Unemployment Benefits and Allowances | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.2 | | ||
| — | Advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and Other Funds | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.1 | | ||
| — | Payments from the General Fund for Extended Unemployment Benefit, Unemployment Trust Fund | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | -40.6 |
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| [+] | Unemployment trust | ||||||||||
| [–] | Workers compensation | 8.0 | 6.7 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 8.3 | 7.8 | | ||
| [–] | General retirement and disability insurance (excluding social security (Disc. 2005) (601) | 8.0 | 6.7 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 8.3 | 7.8 | | ||
| — | Salaries and expenses | n/a | n/a | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | | ||
| — | Pension benefit guaranty corporation fund | n/a | n/a | -1.2 | -0.9 | -0.8 | -0.2 | -0.4 | | ||
| — | Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners | n/a | n/a | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | n/a | | ||
| — | Black lung disability trust fund | n/a | n/a | 0.3 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | | ||
| — | Special workers' compensation expenses | n/a | n/a | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | | ||
| — | Payment of interest on advances to the Railroad Retirement Board | n/a | n/a | -0.2 | -0.2 | -0.1 | -0.1 | -0.1 | | ||
| — | Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Pension Fund | n/a | n/a | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | | ||
| — | District of Columbia Federal Pension Fund | n/a | n/a | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | | ||
| — | Federal Contribution, DC Federal Pension Fund | n/a | n/a | -0.5 | -0.5 | -0.5 | -0.5 | -0.5 | | ||
| — | Federal windfall subsidy | n/a | n/a | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | n/a | | ||
| — | Federal payments to the railroad retirement accounts | n/a | n/a | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | n/a | | ||
| — | Railroad social security equivalent benefit account | n/a | n/a | 6.5 | 6.6 | 6.5 | 6.7 | 6.8 | | ||
| — | Railroad Soc. Sec. equivalent ben. acct., Income tax credits | n/a | n/a | -0.2 | -0.2 | -0.2 | -0.3 | -0.3 | | ||
| — | Railroad Soc. Sec. equivalent ben. acct., Receipts from Federal old-age survivors ins. trust fund | n/a | n/a | -4.0 | -4.1 | -4.1 | -4.0 | -4.1 | | ||
| — | Railroad Soc. Sec. equivalent ben. acct., Receipts from Federal disability ins. trust fund | n/a | n/a | -0.5 | -0.5 | -0.5 | -0.5 | -0.5 | | ||
| — | Rail Industry Pension Fund | n/a | n/a | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | | ||
| — | Rail Industry Pension Fund | n/a | n/a | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.6 | | ||
| — | Payment from the National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust, Rail Industry Pension Fund | n/a | n/a | -1.6 | -1.8 | -1.9 | -1.9 | -2.0 | | ||
| — | Federal payments to railroad retirement trust funds, Rail Industry Pension Fund | n/a | n/a | -0.3 | -0.3 | -0.3 | -0.2 | -0.1 | | ||
| — | National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust | n/a | n/a | 1.6 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 2.1 | | ||
| — | Automatic Workplace Pensions | n/a | n/a | 0.4 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | | ||
| — | Black Lung Disability Trust Fund | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | | ||
| — | Railroad Social Security Equivalent Benefit Account, General Fund Payment for Payroll Tax Holiday (PL 111-312) | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | -0.1 | -0.1 | -0.3 | | ||
| — | Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.2 | | ||
| — | Federal Payments to the Railroad Retirement Accounts | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.8 |
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| [+] | Housing | 36.3 | 38.2 | 57.3 | 57.4 | 60.9 | 59.6 | 47.9 |
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| [+] | Social exclusion n.e.c. | ||||||||||
| [+] | R and D Social protection | ||||||||||
| [+] | Social protection n.e.c. | ||||||||||
| [+] | Protection | 47.3 | 48.6 | 54.6 | 59.2 | 58.7 | 62.0 | 56.3 |
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| [+] | Transportation | 75.6 | 66.0 | 86.5 | 98.2 | 104.9 | 102.6 | 93.0 |
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| [+] | General Government | 23.1 | 23.1 | 26.7 | 29.8 | 32.6 | 33.6 | 30.0 |
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| [+] | Other Spending | 69.8 | 68.3 | 80.8 | 97.4 | 141.5 | 199.6 | 135.1 |
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| [+] | Interest | 284.9 | 299.9 | 348.8 | 342.9 | 241.6 | 224.8 | 220.4 |
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| [+] | Balance | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -544.6 |
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| [+] | Total Spending | 3,246.3 | 3,221.8 | 3,632.8 | 3,754.9 | 3,728.7 | 3,795.6 | 3,526.6 |
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| [+] | Federal Deficit | -61.0 | -48.1 | 557.4 | 828.5 | 1,101.2 | 1,327.0 | 1,076.6 |
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| [+] | Gross Public Debt | 11,487.3 | 11,868.1 | 16,565.7 | 15,484.3 | 16,654.3 | 16,350.9 | 16,050.9 |
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| [+] | Other Borrowing | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 210.1 |
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| [+] | Agency GSE Debt | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7,535.4 |
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| [+] | Grants | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 544.6 |
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| [+] | Inflation | ||||||||||
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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
Starting with the 1986 budget, the Office of Management and Budget provides six years of estimated outlays for each function and subfunction extending from the fiscal year in which the federal budget is published to five years into the future. For instance, the 1986 budget historical tables included estimates for FY85, FY86, FY87, FY88, FY89, and FY90. Starting with FY90, OMB will have made six estimates of outlays for each year before the actual outlays for a fiscal year is reported.
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 estimates starting with estimated vs. actual data for 2014.
The table shows overall budgeted federal expenditures for major functions for the specified fiscal year, as estimated in the historical tables in several presidential budgets. You can compare these estimates with the actual expenditures for the fiscal year as reported in the budget historical tables after the specified fiscal year is over.
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