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| 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 Budget Year: By default, the table displays budgeted and estimated numbers from the most recent US Federal Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at numbers from other US Federal Budgets using this dropdown control. | ||
| GDP: $14,448.9 bln GO: $24,959.3 bln | State and Local Spending: By default, state and local spending are displayed separately. But you can select state'n local and display state and local spending combined. US or State: By default, the table shows values for governments in the United States overall. But for years after 1991 you can select individual states by selecting the state dropdown control in the table heading or the text link right above it. Pie Chart: Select a pie chart you wish to display. You can create a pie chart for federal, state and local, and overall spending/revenue. United States Federal State and Local Government Spending | US CA > Pop: 307.0 million |
| -5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 2009 in $ billion +1yr +5yr | ||
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data is by function. But you can also view data by program or the UN COFOG classification system. | Fed | Gov. Xfer | State | Local | Total | chart | |||
| [+] | Pensions | 695.5 | 0.0 | 156.7 | 35.8 | 888.0 |  
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| [+] | Health Care | 712.7 | -309.6 | 417.3 | 131.2 | 951.6 |
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| [+] | Education | 99.9 | -68.8 | 243.8 | 619.0 | 894.0 |
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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: Start chart | 805.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 805.9 |
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| [–] | Military defense | 675.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 675.1 | | ||
| [–] | Department of Defense -- Military (051) | 651.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 651.2 | | ||
| — | Sale of Certain Materials in National Defense Stockpile | -0.1 | -0.1 | ||||||
| — | General Fund Proprietary Receipts, not Otherwise Classified, Navy | -0.2 | -0.2 | ||||||
| — | General Fund Proprietary Receipts, not Otherwise Classified, Army | -0.3 | -0.3 | ||||||
| — | General Fund Proprietary Receipts, not Otherwise Classified, Defense Agencies | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Undistributed Intragovernmental Payments and Receivables from Cancelled Accounts, Army | -0.1 | -0.1 | ||||||
| — | Undistributed Intragovernmental Payments and Receivables from Cancelled Accounts, Defense Agencies | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Contributions for Burdensharing and Other Cooperative Activities (Kuwait) | -0.1 | -0.1 | ||||||
| — | Contributions for Burdensharing and Other Cooperative Activities (Japan) | -0.3 | -0.3 | ||||||
| — | Contributions for Burdensharing and Other Cooperative Activities (So. Korea) | -0.5 | -0.5 | ||||||
| — | Payment to Voluntary Separation Incentive Fund | -0.1 | -0.1 | ||||||
| — | Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide | 27.7 | 27.7 | ||||||
| — | Drug Interdiction and Counter-drug Activities | 1.1 | 1.1 | ||||||
| — | Office of the Inspector General | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps | 9.0 | 9.0 | ||||||
| — | Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||||||
| — | Defense Health Program | 26.0 | 26.0 | ||||||
| — | Former Soviet Union Threat Reduction Account | 0.4 | 0.4 | ||||||
| — | Iraq Freedom Fund | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||||||
| — | Operation and Maintenance, Navy | 39.7 | 39.7 | ||||||
| — | Operation and Maintenance, Navy Reserve | 1.3 | 1.3 | ||||||
| — | Operation and Maintenance, Army | 80.2 | 80.2 | ||||||
| — | Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard | 6.7 | 6.7 | ||||||
| — | Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve | 2.7 | 2.7 | ||||||
| — | Afghanistan Security Forces Fund | 5.7 | 5.7 | ||||||
| — | Iraq Security Forces Fund | 3.5 | 3.5 | ||||||
| — | Operation and Maintenance, Air Force | 43.0 | 43.0 | ||||||
| — | Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve | 2.6 | 2.6 | ||||||
| — | Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard | 5.5 | 5.5 | ||||||
| — | The Department of Defense Environmental Restoration Accounts | 0.8 | 0.8 | ||||||
| — | Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster and Civic Aid | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Allied Contributions and Cooperation Account | 0.9 | 0.9 | ||||||
| — | Procurement, Marine Corps | 5.3 | 5.3 | ||||||
| — | Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle Fund | 3.4 | 3.4 | ||||||
| — | Aircraft Procurement, Navy | 12.0 | 12.0 | ||||||
| — | Weapons Procurement, Navy | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||||||
| — | Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps | 1.2 | 1.2 | ||||||
| — | Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | 11.3 | 11.3 | ||||||
| — | Other Procurement, Navy | 6.2 | 6.2 | ||||||
| — | Aircraft Procurement, Army | 5.1 | 5.1 | ||||||
| — | Missile Procurement, Army | 2.1 | 2.1 | ||||||
| — | Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army | 6.4 | 6.4 | ||||||
| — | Procurement of Ammunition, Army | 2.3 | 2.3 | ||||||
| — | Other Procurement, Army | 26.2 | 26.2 | ||||||
| — | Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund | 2.8 | 2.8 | ||||||
| — | Procurement, Defense-wide | 3.8 | 3.8 | ||||||
| — | Aircraft Procurement, Air Force | 13.5 | 13.5 | ||||||
| — | Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force | 0.9 | 0.9 | ||||||
| — | Missile Procurement, Air Force | 4.3 | 4.3 | ||||||
| — | Rapid Acquisition Fund | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Other Procurement, Air Force | 18.8 | 18.8 | ||||||
| — | National Guard and Reserve Equipment | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||||||
| — | Defense Production Act Purchases | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, Army | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||||||
| — | Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Navy | 19.4 | 19.4 | ||||||
| — | Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army | 11.8 | 11.8 | ||||||
| — | Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Air Force | 26.1 | 26.1 | ||||||
| — | Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-wide | 20.8 | 20.8 | ||||||
| — | Operational Test and Evaluation | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps | 1.8 | 1.8 | ||||||
| — | Military Construction, Naval Reserve | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Military Construction, Army | 3.6 | 3.6 | ||||||
| — | Military Construction, Army National Guard | 0.7 | 0.7 | ||||||
| — | Military Construction, Army Reserve | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | Military Construction, Air Force | 1.2 | 1.2 | ||||||
| — | Military Construction, Air National Guard | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | Chemical Demilitarization Construction, Defense-wide | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Military Construction, Defense-wide | 1.4 | 1.4 | ||||||
| — | Base Realignment and Closure Account | 0.4 | 0.4 | ||||||
| — | Base Realignment and Closure Account 2005 | 4.4 | 4.4 | ||||||
| — | North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | Family Housing Construction, Army | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Army | 0.7 | 0.7 | ||||||
| — | Family Housing Construction, Navy and Marine Corps | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Navy and Marine Corps | 0.4 | 0.4 | ||||||
| — | Family Housing Construction, Air Force | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||||||
| — | Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Air Force | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||||||
| — | Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | National Defense Sealift Fund | 1.7 | 1.7 | ||||||
| — | Defense Working Capital Fund, Army | 0.7 | 0.7 | ||||||
| — | Working Capital Fund, Navy | -0.4 | -0.4 | ||||||
| — | Working Capital Fund, Air Force | -0.2 | -0.2 | ||||||
| — | Working Capital Fund, Defense Commissary Agency | 1.3 | 1.3 | ||||||
| — | Anticipated Funding for the Global War on Terror | 37.7 | 37.7 | ||||||
| — | Voluntary Separation Incentive Fund | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Host Nation Support Fund for Relocation | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Fund Contribution, Navy | 1.8 | 1.8 | ||||||
| — | Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Fund Contribution, Marine Corps | 1.1 | 1.1 | ||||||
| — | Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Fund Contribution, Reserve Personnel, Navy | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Fund Contribution, Reserve Personnel, Marine Corps | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Fund Contribution, Army | 2.9 | 2.9 | ||||||
| — | Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Fund Contribution, Reserve Personnel Army | 0.7 | 0.7 | ||||||
| — | Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Fund Contribution, National Guard Personnel, Army | 1.2 | 1.2 | ||||||
| — | Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Fund Contribution, Air Force | 1.8 | 1.8 | ||||||
| — | Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Fund Contribution, Reserve Personnel, Air Force | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Fund Contribution, National Guard Personnel, Air Force | 0.4 | 0.4 | ||||||
| — | Military Personnel, Marine Corps | 13.1 | 13.1 | ||||||
| — | Reserve Personnel, Marine Corps | 0.7 | 0.7 | ||||||
| — | Reserve Personnel, Navy | 1.9 | 1.9 | ||||||
| — | Military Personnel, Navy | 25.6 | 25.6 | ||||||
| — | Military Personnel, Army | 48.6 | 48.6 | ||||||
| — | National Guard Personnel, Army | 8.5 | 8.5 | ||||||
| — | Reserve Personnel, Army | 4.2 | 4.2 | ||||||
| — | Military Personnel, Air Force | 26.4 | 26.4 | ||||||
| — | Reserve Personnel, Air Force | 1.4 | 1.4 | ||||||
| — | National Guard Personnel, Air Force | 2.9 | 2.9 | ||||||
| — | Concurrent Receipt Accrual Payments to the Military Retirement Fund | 3.7 | 3.7 | ||||||
| [+] | Atomic energy defense activities (053) | 18.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 18.2 | | ||
| [+] | Defense-related activities (054) | 5.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.7 |
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| [–] | Civil defense | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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| [+] | Veterans | 91.9 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 92.8 |
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| [+] | Foreign military aid | 8.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.9 |
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| [+] | Foreign economic aid | 29.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 29.1 |
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| [+] | R and D Defence | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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| [+] | Defence n.e.c. | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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| [+] | Welfare | 287.8 | -74.9 | 147.5 | 86.9 | 447.3 |
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| [+] | Protection | 51.1 | -6.7 | 90.2 | 178.3 | 313.0 |
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| [+] | Transportation | 83.9 | -55.4 | 104.6 | 136.6 | 269.7 |
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| [+] | General Government | 22.9 | -4.2 | 31.5 | 54.1 | 104.3 |
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| [+] | Other Spending | 88.3 | -18.4 | 92.2 | 346.2 | 508.3 |
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| [+] | Interest | 260.2 | 0.0 | 45.3 | 59.2 | 364.7 |
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| [+] | Balance | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11.7 | 0.0 | 11.7 |
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| [+] | Total Spending | 3,107.4 | -538.0 | 1,341.7 | 1,647.3 | 5,558.3 |
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| [+] | Federal Deficit | 407.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 407.4 |
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| [+] | Gross Public Debt | 10,413.4 | 0.0 | 1,048.7 | 1,664.6 | 13,126.6 | | ||
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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.
Table Notes
The table shows overall government expenditures for the specified fiscal year. Spending totals are aggregated for each major government function.
- For the United States the table shows spending for all levels of government—federal spending, state spending, and local spending.
- For individual states the table shows expenditures for state and local governments only.
Intergovernmental Transfers: The column labeled “Gov. Xfer” in the table represents monies paid by the federal government as grants and aid to state and local governments. These are “intergovernmental transfers.”
For a discussion read All About Intergovernmental Transfers.
Federal Spending by Agency Code: If you drill down below the federal subfunction level you can see federal spending split up into about 4,000 agency code accounts.
For a discussion read Federal Spending at the Agency Code Level
For explanation of Other Borrowing row see blog on “The Feds Borrow More than the ‘Deficit.’”
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Data Sources: For a discussion of the sources of the government spending data used here read How We Got the Data for usgovernmentspending.com.
Actual vs. Budgeted: Government spending data in usgovernmentspending.com includes historical spending and also future spending in three categories: budgeted, estimated, and guesstimated. Records of recent spending are more detailed than historical records of earlier times.
All federal outlays prior to 2008, state spending prior to 2024 and local spending prior to 2024 are actual. More recent spending, including future years out to 2013, are budgeted, estimated, or guesstimated.
Federal expenditure for 1962 through 2013 is based on federal subfunction data published in the president’s Budget of the United States Government. State and local expenditure—both for the United States as a whole and for individual states—for 1992 through 2023 is derived from spending, revenue, and debt numbers in the US Census Bureau’s annual survey of State and Local Government Finances.
State and local expenditure for the United States as a whole between 1971 and 1991 is obtained from Statistical Abstract of the United States. State and local expenditure for individual states between 1957 and 1991 is obtained from an MS Access database at a US Census Bureau site: Govt_Finances.zip.
Federal expenditure between 1792 and 1961 and state and local expenditure for the United States as a whole between 1902 and 1971 is obtained from the US Census Bureau’s Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970.
For a table of data sources see Government Spending Data: Sources.
Government Spending Updates: The most recent year for actual federal spending is FY 2024. The most recent year for actual state spending is FY 2023. The most recent year for actual local government spending is FY 2023.
Typically, federal spending for the fiscal year ending September 30 is first updated from the US Treasury data published in mid October each year, and then updated when the federal budget is published the following February. State and local spending is updated when published by the US Census Bureau.
The update schedule is published on Government Spending Update Schedule.
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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.
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