January 19, 2013
Daily Kos: Nate Silver's data sourcing leaves me speechless
January 16, 2013
NYT’s Nate Silver: What Is Driving Growth in Government Spending?
October 19, 2010
Reason: Why is everyone picking on the Bush "tax cuts" rather than the Bush "spending increases"?
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?
March 28, 2007
Andrew Sullivan: The Daily Dish
March 27, 2007
Jerry Pournelle: Current Chaos Manor mail
American Thinker: Young Democrats Just Don't Get It
On August 7, 2026 we updated the state and local spending and revenue for FY 2024 using the new Census Bureau State and Local Government Finances summaries for FY 2024 released in July 2026. (See also Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances). The release includes state and local spending for the United States as a whole and the 50 individual states and the District of Columbia.
State and local spending and revenue for FY2024 are now actual historical spending as reported by the Census Bureau.
We have updated the "guesstimated" state and local finances for FY2025-31 as indicated in our "guesstimate" blog entries.
We have also updated data for individual local government units with data for 2024.
Beginning in 2022 the Census Bureau has changed the value for Line 56 Direct Expenditure and Line 7 General Revenue from own sources, as follows:
We have decided to end our publication of non-insurance trust cash and security holdings.
However, to keep the time series at usgovernmentspending.com consistent, we have decided to add insurance-trust values back into Line 56 and Line 7 values.
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