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Each federal budget includes actual outlays for all the fiscal years going back to 1962.
FY27 Federal Budget Spending Actuals
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. 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. | ||
| US Federal Government FY 27 Budget Actual Outlays in $ billion nominal | ||
| -5yr -1yr Fiscal Years 2016 - 2021 +1yr +5yr | ||
| Actual Outlays from US Federal FY 27 Budget | ||||||||||
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data is by function. But you can also view data by program or the UN COFOG classification system. | FY 2016 Outlays | FY 2017 Outlays | FY 2018 Outlays | FY 2019 Outlays | FY 2020 Outlays | FY 2021 Outlays | ||||
| [+] | Pensions | 980.5 | 1,006.6 | 1,047.4 | 1,106.9 | 1,151.8 | 1,186.2 | 
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| [+] | Health Care | 1,105.9 | 1,130.5 | 1,139.9 | 1,235.8 | 1,523.8 | 1,492.9 |
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| [+] | Education | 121.7 | 156.3 | 107.9 | 149.6 | 251.1 | 312.5 |
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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 | 813.2 | 821.6 | 859.0 | 938.6 | 1,011.0 | 1,035.1 |
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| [+] | Welfare | 365.6 | 356.8 | 348.3 | 361.5 | 1,107.7 | 1,485.4 |
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| [+] | Protection | 35.8 | 36.8 | 38.2 | 41.3 | 45.6 | 46.0 |
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| [+] | Transportation | 92.6 | 93.6 | 92.8 | 95.8 | 145.6 | 154.3 |
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| [+] | General Government | 47.1 | 48.5 | 48.0 | 50.8 | 208.7 | 302.8 |
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| [+] | Other Spending | 50.2 | 68.5 | 102.5 | 91.5 | 763.0 | 455.0 |
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| [+] | Interest | 240.0 | 262.6 | 325.0 | 375.2 | 345.5 | 352.3 |
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| [+] | Balance | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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| [+] | Total Spending: Start chart | 3,852.6 | 3,981.6 | 4,109.0 | 4,447.0 | 6,553.6 | 6,822.5 |
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| [+] | Federal Deficit | 584.7 | 665.5 | 779.1 | 983.6 | 3,132.5 | 2,775.4 |
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| [+] | Gross Public Debt | 19,539.5 | 20,205.7 | 21,462.3 | 22,669.5 | 26,902.5 | 28,385.6 |
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| [+] | Other Borrowing | 834.8 | 0.7 | 477.6 | 223.6 | 1,100.5 | -1,292.2 |
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| [+] | Agency GSE Debt | 8,496.1 | 8,842.7 | 9,089.6 | 9,408.3 | 10,066.5 | 10,679.4 |
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| [+] | Grants | 660.8 | 674.7 | 696.5 | 721.1 | 829.1 | 1,245.3 |
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| [+] | Gross Domestic Product | 18,804.9 | 19,612.1 | 20,656.5 | 21,540.0 | 21,375.3 | 23,725.6 | | ||
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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.
Notes
The table shows overall actual federal expenditures for major functions for a six year window, as reported in the historical tables in the latest presidential budget.
If the most recent year, 2025, shows many values as budgeted, it is because the details of actual expenditure for the latest year have not yet been released.
You can move the the six-year window, change the units displayed, or drill down to view more detailed spending information.
Data Sources: Federal spending from Budget of the United States Government.
For a discussion of the sources of the government spending data used here read How We Got the Data for usgovernmentspending.com.
Budget Updates: The president’s budget is typically published each year in February.
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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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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: | $38,380,536,147,996.03 | Debt 2/2020: | $23,409,959,150,243.63 |
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Here is how headline budget estimates for the upcoming FY 2027 fiscal year have changed since the release of the FY 2025 budget in Winter 2024. There were no budgetary estimates in the budget documents for the FY 2026 budget.
| $ 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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