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The three biggest federal programs are health care (including Medicare and Medicaid), pensions (including Social Security), and Defense.
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 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 16 Budget Estimated Outlays in $ billion nominal | ||
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Estimated Outlays from US Federal FY 16 Budget | ||||||||||
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data is by function. But you can also view data by program or the UN COFOG classification system. | FY 2015 Outlays | FY 2016 Outlays | FY 2017 Outlays | FY 2018 Outlays | FY 2019 Outlays | FY 2020 Outlays | ||||
[+] | Pensions | 951.4 | 1,005.4 | 1,055.8 | 1,112.8 | 1,183.0 | 1,252.3 | ![]() | ||
[+] | Health Care | 1,017.7 | 1,107.4 | 1,134.1 | 1,175.0 | 1,272.6 | 1,338.1 | ![]() | ||
[+] | Education | 149.0 | 119.2 | 130.0 | 138.9 | 146.9 | 152.9 | ![]() | ||
[+] Charts: Click on a ![]() Click on ![]() [+] 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 | 851.8 | 840.4 | 822.7 | 835.4 | 851.3 | ![]() | ||
[+] | Welfare | 383.5 | 399.4 | 409.0 | 407.4 | 420.0 | 425.1 | ![]() | ||
[+] | Protection | 58.7 | 58.5 | 62.3 | 61.2 | 62.0 | 64.3 | ![]() | ||
[+] | Transportation | 92.9 | 98.7 | 103.8 | 107.2 | 108.1 | 109.8 | ![]() | ||
[+] | General Government | 25.0 | 29.3 | 27.7 | 28.0 | 29.1 | 30.3 | ![]() | ||
[+] | Other Spending | 37.3 | 46.7 | 93.4 | 145.9 | 112.0 | 118.5 | ![]() | ||
[+] | Interest | 229.2 | 283.0 | 361.3 | 424.2 | 483.5 | 543.8 | ![]() | ||
[+] | Balance | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||
[+] | Total Spending: Start chart | 3,758.6 | 3,999.5 | 4,217.8 | 4,423.3 | 4,652.6 | 4,886.4 | ![]() | ||
[+] | Federal Deficit | 582.5 | 474.3 | 462.8 | 478.9 | 517.7 | 554.1 | ![]() | ||
[+] | Gross Public Debt | 18,627.6 | 19,333.8 | 20,095.1 | 20,870.3 | 21,640.3 | 22,413.2 | ![]() | ||
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The table shows overall budgeted federal outlays for major functions for the next five years, as estimated in the historical tables in the current presidential budget.
You can change the budget to be analyzed or drill down to view more detailed spending information.
But. For the “default” and “programs” views, we have extracted data from the Public Budget Database to expand Social Security and Medicare beyond the single line item each gets in Table 3.2. The Public Budget Database starts publishing six years of estimated outlays with the FY10 budget, so this page will only provide a full six years of estimated outlays starting with the FY10 budget.
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.
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Sources for 2015:
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 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
> data sources for other years
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$ billion | Guesstimate | Actual |
Spending | $1,708 | $1,707 |
Revenue | $1,604 | $1,499 |
FY 2019 Budget Release Date
White House budget release on Feb. 12 at the earliest
White House says full fiscal 2018 budget to be released on May 23
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Trump FY18 Budget News
Discretionary spending on March 16.
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