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What are the biggest federal programs?
The three biggest federal programs are health care (including Medicare and Medicaid), pensions (including Social Security), and Defense.
US Federal Budget Analyst
FY16 Federal Budget Spending Estimates
for Fiscal Years 2015 - 2020
| 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 | 
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| [+] | Health Care | 1,017.7 | 1,107.4 | 1,134.1 | 1,175.0 | 1,272.6 | 1,338.1 |
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| [+] | Education | 149.0 | 119.2 | 130.0 | 138.9 | 146.9 | 152.9 |
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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 | 851.8 | 840.4 | 822.7 | 835.4 | 851.3 |
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| [+] | Welfare | 383.5 | 399.4 | 409.0 | 407.4 | 420.0 | 425.1 |
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| [+] | Protection | 58.7 | 58.5 | 62.3 | 61.2 | 62.0 | 64.3 |
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| [+] | Transportation | 92.9 | 98.7 | 103.8 | 107.2 | 108.1 | 109.8 |
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| [+] | General Government | 25.0 | 29.3 | 27.7 | 28.0 | 29.1 | 30.3 |
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| [+] | Other Spending | 37.3 | 46.7 | 93.4 | 145.9 | 112.0 | 118.5 |
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| [+] | Interest | 229.2 | 283.0 | 361.3 | 424.2 | 483.5 | 543.8 |
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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 | 3,758.6 | 3,999.5 | 4,217.8 | 4,423.3 | 4,652.6 | 4,886.4 |
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| [+] | Federal Deficit | 582.5 | 474.3 | 462.8 | 478.9 | 517.7 | 554.1 |
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| [+] | Gross Public Debt | 18,627.6 | 19,333.8 | 20,095.1 | 20,870.3 | 21,640.3 | 22,413.2 | | ||
| Outlays: 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. b - budgeted estimate in US FY16 budget e - estimated by usgovernmentspending.com Data Sources for 2015: Data Sources for 2020: | ||||||||||
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.
Notes
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.
Budget Updates: The president’s budget is typically published each year in February.
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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.
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Data Sources for 2015_2020:
Sources for 2015:
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Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
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Sources for 2020:
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- We updated 2010-2018 population data for US and states using data from US Census Bureau Population Estimates: vintage 2018 in file nst-est2018-01.xlsx.
- We projected 2019 thru 2024 for the states assuming population rate change for 2017-18.
- We updated 2019 thru 2024 for US only using the percentage projections from US Census Bureau 2017 National Population Projections in file np2017-t1.xlsx.
You can check the data update schedule here.
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