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FY16 Budget Comparison Spending Estimates
for Fiscal Years 2016 - 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 Spending
Budget Plan Comparison for FY16
-5yr -1yr   in $ billion   -2021yr
Spending Estimates from US Federal FY16 Budget
House
CBO
OMB
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House less OMB
Senate
 FY 2016
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 FY 2017
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 FY 2018
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 FY 2019
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 FY 2020
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 FY 2021
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Security
  Senate0.00.00.00.00.00.0
Discretionary (base)
  Senate0.00.00.00.00.00.0
Global War on Terror
  Senate0.00.00.00.00.00.0
Non-Security
  Senate0.00.00.00.00.00.0
Medicaid
  Senate0.00.00.00.00.00.0
Medicare (Net)
  Senate0.00.00.00.00.00.0
President’s Health Care Law
  Senate0.00.00.00.00.00.0
Social Security
  Senate0.00.00.00.00.00.0
Other Mandatory
  Senate0.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net Interest
  Senate0.00.00.00.00.00.0
Total Outlays
  Senate0.00.00.00.00.00.0
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The table shows project federal spending for major categories as published in the budget plan published by the House Budget Committee.

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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.

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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.

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Debt Now:  $37,467,893,078,454.54
Debt 2/2020:$23,409,959,150,243.63

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State and Local Finances for 2023

On September 11, 2025 we updated the state and local spending and revenue for FY 2023 using the new Census Bureau State and Local Government Finances summaries for FY 2023 released on July 31, 2025.  (See also Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances). The release includes state and local spending for the United States as a whole and the 50 individual states and the District of Columbia.

State and local spending and revenue for FY2023 are now actual historical spending as reported by the Census Bureau. In addition, the Census Bureau published updated tables for 2021 and 2022.

We have updated the "guesstimated" state and local finances for FY2024-30 as indicated in our "guesstimate" blog entries.

We have also updated data for individual local government units with data for 2023. 

Beginning in 2022 the Census Bureau has changed the value for Line 56 Direct Expenditure and Line 7 General Revenue from own sources, as follows:

We have decided to end our publication of non-insurance trust cash and security holdings.

However, to keep the time series at usgovernmentspending.com consistent, we have decided to add insurance-trust values back into Line 56 and Line 7 values. 

State Spending for 2023
In March 2025 the US Census Bureau released data on state finances for FY 2023 here and  ...

Agency Debt Update for 2024
On June 24, 2025, usgovernmentspending.com updated its data for agency debt from the Federal Reserve Board database. Data is now available for the period 1945-2024. You can see our Agency Debt page ...

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