Spending Breakdown

Government Spending Totals

Total Government Spending in the United States -5yr -1yr   Fiscal Year 2012   +1yr +4yr
	Federal Gross Spending	$3.8 trillion
	Intergovernmental	$-0.6 trillion
	State Direct Spending	$1.4 trillion
	Local Direct Spending	$1.7 trillion
	Total Spending	$6.3 trillion
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Federal spending is gross spending, total outlays including monies transferred to states and local governments. Actual federal outlays spent directly on programs is (Federal Gross Spending less Intergovernmental). Numbers for state and local spending are “direct spending,” monies spent directly on programs.

There’s much, much more:

• Create CHARTS of government spending history here.
• Look at TABLES of spending breakdown year-by-year for federal, state, and local here.
• DOWNLOAD data for a single year here.
• Take a TOUR of the website here.

What is the spending data; where is it from?

• Federal spending data begins in 1792.
• State and local spending data begins in 1902.
• Spending data is from official government sources.
  Federal 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 measuringworth.com.
• Spending data sources here.

Sources

U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1913-2011
US Federal Income tax rate Schedules

New FDSYS federal budget page
from US Government Printing Office

Combined Statement of Receipts, Outlays, and Balances of the United States Government FY 2010
Annual US Treasury Report on Spending and Revenue

US Government - Historical Debt Outstanding
US Treasury's measure of US National Debt

Measuring Worth - GDP Series for US and UK
includes GDP and chained GDP for US; GDP and chained GDP for UK

Gross Domestic Product by State
from Bureau of Economic Analysis

US Population Estimates from 1900
Census Bureau's annual population estimate from 1900 to 1999

2005 Census of Governments - Finance Technical Documentation
Contains Census Bureau spending and revenue codes

JpGraph Chart Library
Open source graph creating Library for PHP.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
historical editions of Census Bureau's publication. From 1878.

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Welfare Spending

Data Sources for 2012:

GDP: US Budget FY12 Table 10.1
Federal: Budget of the US Government
State: State and Local Gov. Finances

> data sources for other years
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Federal Budget FY 13 Released

On February 13, 2012, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the historical tables in the FY13 federal budget. Actual revenue for FY 2011 and estimated revenue through FY 2017 come from Tables 2.1, 2.4, and 2.5. Actual spending for FY 2011 and estimated spending at the subfunction level through FY 2017 comes from Table 3.2. Federal debt estimates come from Table 7.1 and GDP estimates come from Table 10.1.

You can see you each line item changes from budget to budget here. You can compare budget estimates with actuals here.

Account level spending estimates through FY 2017 come from the outlays table in the Public Budget Database and will be updated in the next few days.

Budget News

FY13 Budget Plan Has Familiar Ring
$3 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years including $1.5 trillion in tax increases.

FY13 budget due Feb 13
White House to miss budget deadline for third year.

Lew to finish work on 2013 budget before departing OMB
Early February release?

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Blog

State Finances Update for FY 2010
On December 14, 2011 the US Census Bureau released data on state finances for FY 2010 here, includin...

Revision to State and Local Data for 2001, 2003
We have revised state and local spending and revenue data for 2001 and 2003. For 2001 and 2003 the ...

State and Local Update for 2009
On October 31, 2011 usgovernmentspending.com updated the state and local spending and revenue from F...

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