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Total US Government Spending

Headline federal, state, local, and total US government spending.

  Amounts in $ trillionFY 2021FY 2022 
Federal Spending6.825.85
Intergov. Transfers-1.24-1.22
State Spending2.232.36
Local Spending2.222.32
TOTAL Spending10.049.32
Spending: actual budgeted guesstimated

Total US government spending includes federal, state, and local government spending net of intergovernmental transfers.

Intergovernmental Transfers are federal spending transferred to state and local govenments. State and local spending is guesstimated. Latest state data: FY 2020; latest local data: FY 2020.

Total Spending Pie Chart for FY 2021

We have total spending data (federal+state+local) going back to 1820. Individual state and local spending data going back to 1957.

  Spending FunctionsFY 2021 
Pensions inc. SoSec$1.55 trillion
Health care$1.98 trillion
Education$1.42 trillion
Defense$1.04 trillion
Welfare$1.67 trillion
Protection$0.34 trillion
Transportation$0.41 trillion
Gen. Government$0.22 trillion
Other Spending$0.95 trillion
Interest$0.47 trillion
TOTAL Spending$10.04 trillion
Spending: guesstimated

Federal Deficits

The Deficit is the amount by which the federal government’s total budget outlays exceeds its total receipts for a fiscal year.

Last year, FY 2021, the deficit was $2,775 billion.

This year, FY 2022, the deficit is budgeted at $1,415 billion.

Federal Debt

The Gross Federal Debt is the gross amount of debt outstanding issued by the US Treasury.

Last year, FY 2021, the gross federal debt ended at $28.39 trillion.

This year, FY 2022, the gross federal debt is budgeted at $31.29 trillion.

Welfare Spending

Welfare Spending in the United States includes health care for the poor; income security including EITC, SSI, TANF; food assistance; housing assistance; unemployment compensation.

Welfare Spending is budgeted in FY 2022 at $1,753 billion, including Medicaid at $823 billion, and other welfare spending at $931 billion.

Defense Spending

Defense Spending in the United States is budgeted in FY 2022 at $1,116.2 billion, including Pentagon spending $779.7 billion, veterans spending at $275.0 billion and foreign aid spending at $61.6 billion.

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Spending Data Sources

Spending data is from official government sources.

Gross Domestic Product data comes from US Bureau of Economic Analysis and measuringworth.com.

Detailed table of spending data sources here.
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.

Gross Federal Debt

Debt Now:  $30,736,589,309,063.51
Debt 2/2020:$23,409,959,150,243.63

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Data Sources for 2020_2027:

Sources for 2020:

GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years

Sources for 2027:

GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years

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Blog

Usgovernmentspending.com has updated its estimate of Medicare Part C, the Medicare Advantage program using data in the Medicare Trustees Report of 2022 that was released June 4, 2022. You can see the results here.

The Budget of the United States Government reports Medicare outlays as a single line item, subfunction 571 in Historical Table 3.2, but Usgovernmentspending.com shows a breakdown of the Medicare program into its constituent parts, as follows:
  1. Part A: Hospital Insurance
  2. Part B: Supplementary Medical Insurance
  3. Part C: Medicare Advantage
  4. Part D: SMI Drug Plan
These data are constructed from data in the Public Budget Database, which provide details on Part A, Part B, and Part D, with Part C embedded in the Part A and Part B outlays. Part C is constructed from data in Table IV.C2 in the Medicare Trustees Report 2022 which reports the payments made to private Medicare health plans and the projected payments in future years.

You can inspect the extracted data from Medicare Trustees Reports Table IV.C2 here. And see the blog entry that introduced the Medicare Part C breakout to usgovernmentspending.com here.

Here is a breakdown of Medicare budgeted outlays on usgovernmentspending.com for FY 2022 before and after today's update.

Budgeted Outlays in
percent GDP
Part APart BPart CPart DTotal
Medicare
FY2022 before update0.690.681.390.373.14% GDP
FY2022 after update0.690.661.420.373.14% GDP


The update indicates a  small increase in budgeted Medicare Part C over the previous estimate in the Medicare Trustees Report in 2021.

State and Local Finances for 2020
On July 6, 2022 we updated the state and local spending and revenue for FY 2020 using the new Census Bureau  ...

Medicare/Social Security 2022 Trustee Reports Released
On June 2, 2022, the Center for Medicare Services released its annual  ...

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