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What is the Total US Government Spending?
In FY 2026, total US government spending, federal, state, and local, is “guesstimated” to be $13.64 trillion, with federal $7.54 trillion; state $3.72 trillion; local $3.63 trillion.
US Government Spending Totals in $ trillion
Total government spending in the United States combines spending by federal, state, and local governments.
Total government spending includes:
Federal Gross Spending
less Intergovernmental transfers from federal to state and local
plus State government Direct Spending
plus Local government Direct Spending.
Total Government Spending | |||
| Federal Gross Spending | $3.5 trillion |  | |
| Intergovernmental | $-0.5 trillion | | |
| State Direct Spending | $1.5 trillion | | |
| Local Direct Spending | $1.7 trillion | | |
| Total Spending | $6.1 trillion | | |
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Federal spending: actual, as reported by the Office of Management and Budget.
State spending: actual, as reported by the US Bureau of the Census.
Local spending: actual, as reported by the US Bureau of the Census.
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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.
Medicare breakdown here; Medicaid breakdown here.
Federal spending data begins in 1792.
State and local spending data begins in 1820.
State and local spending data for individual states begins in 1957.
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Gross Federal Debt
| Debt Now: | $39,213,266,279,741.16 | Debt 2/2020: | $23,409,959,150,243.63 |
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Data Sources for 2012:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
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Gross State Product for 2025
The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its Gross State Product (GSP) data for 2025 on April 9, 2026.
Usgovernmentspending.com has updated its individual state GSPs for 2025 for each state using the projected national GDP numbers from Table 10.1 in the Historical Tables for the Federal FY2027 Budget and the historical GDP data series from the BEA as a baseline.
Process:
- Click on link.
- Click on "Interactive Data" link
- Click on "Interactive Tables: GDP by State" link
- Click on "Annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by State"
- Click on "Summary Tables for GDP, personal income, and related data."
- Click on "SASUMMARY"
- Area: Select "All Areas"
- Statistic: Select "Real GDP..." and "Gross domestic product (GDP)"
- Click on Next Step button
- Time Period: Select "All Years"
- Click on Next Step button
- Click on Download button
- Select CSV
On April 4, 2026, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the Public Budget Database in the Budget of the United ...
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