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Government Spending Details for 2026
Total US government estimated spending for 2026 is $13.57 trillion, including a budgeted $7.42 trillion federal, a “guesstimated” $3.73 trillion state, and a “guesstimated” $3.64 trillion local.
| 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. Fiscal Year: The default year displayed is the current US government fiscal year. But you can select any year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select a year to get close, then select the year you want. You can increase or decrease the year using the “yr” text links in the table heading. 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. | ||
| GDP: $30,552.7 bln GO: $54,705.4 bln | State and Local Spending: By default, state and local spending are displayed separately. But you can select state'n local and display state and local spending combined. US or State: By default, the table shows values for governments in the United States overall. But for years after 1991 you can select individual states by selecting the state dropdown control in the table heading or the text link right above it. 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. United States Federal State and Local Government Spending | US CA > Pop: 346.8 million |
| -5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 2026 in $ billion +1yr +3yr | ||
| View: people old function radical census programs altprog oldprog COFOG Change Data View: The default view of spending
data is by function. But you can also view data by program or the UN COFOG classification system. | Fed | Gov. Xfer | State | Local | Total | chart | |||
| [+] | Pensions | 1,703.2 | 0.0 | 447.0 | 92.2 | 2,242.4 |  
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| [+] | Health Care | 1,954.3 | -907.3 | 279.5 | 337.1 | 1,663.5 |
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| [+] | Education | 206.6 | -93.6 | 566.5 | 1,366.9 | 2,046.3 |
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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 | 1,388.5 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 1,390.6 |
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| [–] | Welfare: Start chart | 601.4 | -108.2 | 116.6 | 94.3 | 704.1 |
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| [–] | Family and children | 468.7 | -45.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 423.5 | | ||
| [–] | Food and nutrition assistance (605) | 171.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 171.8 | | ||
| — | Federal Assistance | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Funds for Strengthening Markets, Income, and Supply (section 32) | 1.6 | 1.6 | ||||||
| — | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program | 11.2 | 11.2 | ||||||
| — | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program | 113.2 | 113.2 | ||||||
| — | Commodity Assistance Program | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||||||
| — | Nutrition Programs Administration | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| — | Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) | 7.8 | 7.8 | ||||||
| — | Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| — | Child Nutrition Programs | 35.5 | 35.5 | ||||||
| — | Child Nutrition Programs | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||||||
| [+] | Other income security (609) | 296.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 296.8 | | ||
| – | Federal Intergovernmental - Public Welfare (B79) | 0.0 | -45.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -45.2 | | ||
| – | Current Operations - Welfare, Federal Categorical Assistance Programs (Disc. 2005) (E67) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Current Operations - Welfare, Cash Assistance - Other (Disc. 2005) (E68) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Current Operations - Public Welfare, Vendor Payments for Other Purposes (E75) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Current Operations - Public Welfare Institutions (E77) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Current Operations - Public Welfare - Other (E79) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Construction - Public Welfare, Vendor Payments for Other Purposes (F75) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Construction - Public Welfare Institutions (F77) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Construction - Public Welfare - Other (F79) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Other Capital Outlay - Public Welfare, Vendor Payments for Other Purposes (G75) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Other Capital Outlay - Public Welfare Institutions (G77) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Other Capital Outlay - Public Welfare - Other (G79) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Intergovernmental to Federal - Welfare - Categorical Assistance Programs (J67) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Assistance and Subsidies - Public Welfare, Cash Assistance Programs - Other (J68) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Cash Assistance Payments (S67) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Welfare other cash assistance (S68) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Current Operations - Public Welfare, Vendor Payments for Other Purposes (S75) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | ||
| – | Other Welfare (S79) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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| [+] | Unemployment | 48.0 | -7.3 | 94.7 | 0.0 | 135.5 |
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| [+] | Unemployment trust | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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| [+] | Housing | 84.7 | -55.8 | 22.0 | 94.3 | 145.1 |
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| [+] | Social exclusion n.e.c. | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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| [+] | R and D Social protection | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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| [+] | Social protection n.e.c. | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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| [+] | Protection | 56.0 | -14.7 | 129.2 | 312.0 | 482.6 |
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| [+] | Transportation | 159.3 | -100.7 | 204.2 | 220.3 | 483.1 |
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| [+] | General Government | 88.5 | -3.2 | 125.7 | 150.8 | 361.9 |
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| [+] | Other Spending | 246.1 | -40.7 | 201.5 | 674.6 | 1,081.5 |
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| [+] | Interest | 1,013.4 | 0.0 | 35.4 | 76.2 | 1,125.0 |
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| [+] | Balance | 2.3 | 0.0 | 1,552.1 | 87.3 | 1,641.7 |
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| [+] | Total Spending | 7,419.4 | -1,268.3 | 3,659.9 | 3,411.8 | 13,222.8 |
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| [+] | Federal Deficit | 1,546.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,546.7 |
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| [+] | Gross Public Debt | 39,039.6 | 0.0 | 1,090.2 | 2,274.2 | 42,403.9 |
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| [+] | Other Borrowing | 396.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 396.5 |
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| [+] | Agency GSE Debt | 12,888.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12,888.2 |
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| [+] | Grants | 1,160.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,160.2 | | ||
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| Spending: 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 g - guesstimated e - estimated Data Sources: 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 | Switch to revenue | ||||||||
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.
Total Spending: Federal: total outlays including grants to state and local. State and local: direct spending on programs.
Table Notes
The table shows overall government expenditures for the specified fiscal year. Spending totals are aggregated for each major government function.
- For the United States the table shows spending for all levels of government—federal spending, state spending, and local spending.
- For individual states the table shows expenditures for state and local governments only.
Intergovernmental Transfers: The column labeled “Gov. Xfer” in the table represents monies paid by the federal government as grants and aid to state and local governments. These are “intergovernmental transfers.”
For a discussion read All About Intergovernmental Transfers.
Federal Spending by Agency Code: If you drill down below the federal subfunction level you can see federal spending split up into about 4,000 agency code accounts.
For a discussion read Federal Spending at the Agency Code Level
For explanation of Other Borrowing row see blog on “The Feds Borrow More than the ‘Deficit.’”
You can use controls on the table to change from display of nationwide spending data to individual states. You can change the year or to drill down to view more detailed spending information. You can also view the spending data as percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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Data Notes
Data Sources: For a discussion of the sources of the government spending data used here read How We Got the Data for usgovernmentspending.com.
Actual vs. Budgeted: Government spending data in usgovernmentspending.com includes historical spending and also future spending in three categories: budgeted, estimated, and guesstimated. Records of recent spending are more detailed than historical records of earlier times.
All federal outlays prior to 2026, state spending prior to 2024 and local spending prior to 2024 are actual. More recent spending, including future years out to 2031, are budgeted, estimated, or guesstimated.
Federal expenditure for 1962 through 2031 is based on federal subfunction data published in the president’s Budget of the United States Government. State and local expenditure—both for the United States as a whole and for individual states—for 1992 through 2023 is derived from spending, revenue, and debt numbers in the US Census Bureau’s annual survey of State and Local Government Finances.
State and local expenditure for the United States as a whole between 1971 and 1991 is obtained from Statistical Abstract of the United States. State and local expenditure for individual states between 1957 and 1991 is obtained from an MS Access database at a US Census Bureau site: Govt_Finances.zip.
Federal expenditure between 1792 and 1961 and state and local expenditure for the United States as a whole between 1902 and 1971 is obtained from the US Census Bureau’s Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970.
For a table of data sources see Government Spending Data: Sources.
Government Spending Updates: The most recent year for actual federal spending is FY 2025. The most recent year for actual state spending is FY 2023. The most recent year for actual local government spending is FY 2023.
Typically, federal spending for the fiscal year ending September 30 is first updated from the US Treasury data published in mid October each year, and then updated when the federal budget is published the following February. State and local spending is updated when published by the US Census Bureau.
The update schedule is published on Government Spending Update Schedule.
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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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| Debt Now: | $37,889,756,572,760.44 | Debt 2/2020: | $23,409,959,150,243.63 |
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Data Sources for 2026:
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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
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| $ billion | FY2025 Estimate | FY2025 Actual |
| State Income Tax Revenue | $908 | $798 |
| Total State Revenue | $2,815 | $3.072 |
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