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State and Local Government Spending Details for 2015
Spending details break down government expenditures by function and level of government. You can also drill down to view more spending detail by clicking the [+] control on each function line.
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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: $18,295.0 bln GO: $32,233.9 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: 320.7 million |
| -5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 2015 in $ billion +1yr +5yr | ||
| View: people old function radical census programs altprog oldprog COFOG Change Data View: The default view of spending
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 | 959.0 | 0.0 | 235.7 | 49.5 | 1,244.2 |  
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| [–] | Health Care: Start chart | 1,017.7 | -407.2 | 608.8 | 154.3 | 1,373.5 |
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| [+] | Medical service (Seniors) | 536.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 536.4 |
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| [+] | Medical service | 0.0 | -20.1 | 113.2 | 148.8 | 241.9 |
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| [+] | Public health services | 5.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.1 |
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| [+] | R and D Health | 32.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 32.6 |
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| [+] | Health n.e.c. | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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| [–] | Vendor Payments (Medical) | 443.6 | -387.2 | 495.7 | 5.5 | 557.6 | | ||
| [–] | Health care services (551) | 443.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 443.6 | | ||
| — | Supplemental Payments to UMWA Plans | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Refundable Premium Tax Credit and Cost Sharing Reductions | 28.6 | 28.6 | ||||||
| — | Payment Where Small Business Health Insurance Tax Credit Exceeds Liability for Tax | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund | 10.6 | 10.6 | ||||||
| — | Government Payment for Annuitants, Employees Health Benefits | 12.0 | 12.0 | ||||||
| — | Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund | 3.1 | 3.1 | ||||||
| — | Employees and Retired Employees Health Benefits Funds | -0.7 | -0.7 | ||||||
| — | United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Federal Payment to United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund | -0.1 | -0.1 | ||||||
| — | United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | United Mine Workers of America 1993 Benefit Plan | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||||||
| — | Health Resources and Services | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||||||
| — | Health Resources and Services | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||||||
| — | Health Resources and Services | 2.8 | 2.8 | ||||||
| — | Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | Indian Health Services | 4.4 | 4.4 | ||||||
| — | Indian Health Services | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Indian Health Facilities | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||||||
| — | CDC Working Capital Fund | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | CDC-Wide Activities and Program Support | 0.8 | 0.8 | ||||||
| — | CDC-Wide Activities and Program Support | 5.4 | 5.4 | ||||||
| — | Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Toxic Substances and Environmental Public Health | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | World Trade Center Health Program Fund | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||||||
| — | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | 3.3 | 3.3 | ||||||
| — | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||||||
| — | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Rate Review Grants | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Affordable Insurance Exchange Grants | 2.1 | 2.1 | ||||||
| — | Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan Program Account | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | Program Management | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||||||
| — | Grants to States for Medicaid | 333.1 | 333.1 | ||||||
| — | Children's Health Insurance Fund | 10.6 | 10.6 | ||||||
| — | State Grants and Demonstrations | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||||||
| — | Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation | 1.3 | 1.3 | ||||||
| — | Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan Program Contingency Fund | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Risk Adjustment Program Payments | 3.4 | 3.4 | ||||||
| — | Transitional Reinsurance Program | 9.3 | 9.3 | ||||||
| — | Health Insurance Reform Implementation Fund | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Nonrecurring Expenses Fund | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||||||
| — | Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund | 0.4 | 0.4 | ||||||
| — | Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund | 1.6 | 1.6 | ||||||
| — | General Departmental Management | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||||||
| — | Retirement Pay and Medical Benefits for Commissioned Officers | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||||||
| — | HHS Service and Supply Fund | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | Miscellaneous Trust Funds | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Office of Inspector General | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| – | Federal Intergovernmental - Vendor Payments for Medical Care (B74) | 0.0 | -387.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -387.2 | | ||
| – | Current Operations - Welfare, Payments to Medicare Trust Fund (NEW for 2007; previous (E73) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Current Operations - Public Welfare, Vendor Payments for Medical Care (E74) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Vendor Payments for Medical Care (S74) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 495.7 | 5.5 | 501.1 |
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| [+] | Education | 149.0 | -56.2 | 290.2 | 655.7 | 1,038.7 |
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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 | 813.9 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 814.9 |
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| [+] | Welfare | 375.9 | -75.0 | 117.0 | 89.3 | 507.1 |
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| [+] | Protection | 35.5 | -5.8 | 71.2 | 169.5 | 270.4 |
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| [+] | Transportation | 92.9 | -60.8 | 129.0 | 146.0 | 307.1 |
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| [+] | General Government | 48.2 | -3.8 | 58.4 | 76.3 | 179.2 |
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| [+] | Other Spending | 37.3 | -15.4 | 84.1 | 360.4 | 466.5 |
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| [+] | Interest | 229.2 | 0.0 | 43.3 | 62.3 | 334.8 |
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| [+] | Balance | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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| [+] | Total Spending | 3,758.6 | -624.4 | 1,638.9 | 1,763.3 | 6,536.5 |
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| [+] | Federal Deficit | 582.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 582.5 |
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| [+] | Gross Public Debt | 18,627.6 | 0.0 | 1,155.1 | 1,833.3 | 21,616.1 |
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| [+] | Other Borrowing | 250.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 250.6 |
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| [+] | Agency GSE Debt | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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| [+] | Grants | 624.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 624.4 |
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| [+] | Gross Domestic Product | 17,985.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17,985.0 | | ||
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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.’”
You can use controls on the table to change from display of nationwide spending data to individual states. You can change the year or to drill down to view more detailed spending information. You can also view the spending data as percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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Data Notes
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 2015, state spending prior to 2024 and local spending prior to 2024 are actual. More recent spending, including future years out to 2020, are budgeted, estimated, or guesstimated.
Federal expenditure for 1962 through 2020 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 2025. 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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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.
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| Debt Now: | $38,942,623,681,847.68 | Debt 2/2020: | $23,409,959,150,243.63 |
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| $ billion | Estimate for 2027 in FY2025 Budget | Estimate for 2027 in FY2027 Budget | Change |
| Federal Outlays | $7,696.6 | $8,092.9 | +$569.1 |
| Federal Receipts | $6,186.2 | $5,921.0 | +$279.1 |
| Federal Deficit | $1,510.3 | $2,171.9 | +$290.0 |
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