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July 25, 2010

Financial Times: The political genius of supply-side economics

May 5, 2010

Los Angeles Times: Greece's lessons for us

April 27, 2010

Daily Dish: The Right-Wing Media-Industrial Complex

April 26, 2010

New York Times: Does Conservatism Need Fox News?

February 17, 2010

PBS: The Business Desk: How Does the Current Deficit Compare to Past Deficits?

November 14, 2007

The Western Right: Understanding Government: Spending

October 22, 2007

Politics Reddit: Now if I told you...

September 27, 2007

Huffington Post: We Can't Give You Anything But War, Baby

August 14, 2007

Matt Yglesias: The Big Con

May 28, 2007

Marginal Revolution: Would immortals be libertarian?

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Andrew Sullivan: The Daily Dish

March 27, 2007

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American Thinker: Young Democrats Just Don't Get It

Federal Budget for FY27 Released

On April 4, 2026, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the Public Budget Database in the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2027

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.

Federal Budget Changes for 2027
$ billionEstimate 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

You can see line item changes from budget to budget here. You can compare budget estimates with actuals here.

Account level spending estimates through FY 2031 come from the Outlays table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on April 4, 2026.

Account level budget authority estimates through FY 2031 come from the Budget Authority table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on April 4, 2026. 

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