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How Much is Government Spending Changing?
In FY 2026, total US government spending, federal, state, and local, is “guesstimated” to be $12.20 trillion, an increase of 9.3% from FY 2025.
Spending Percentage Change for 2026
Here’s how government spending changed, percentage wise.
United States Total Government Spending
Percent Change from 2025 to 2026
| $ billion nom 2026 | increase over 2025 | percent over 2025 | |||
| Pensions | 2,248.3 | 149.0 | 7.1 % | ||
| Health Care | 2,809.3 | 201.3 | 7.7 % | ||
| Education | 1,857.0 | 210.9 | 12.8 % | ||
| Defense | 1,468.5 | 127.9 | 9.5 % | ||
| Welfare | 806.9 | 70.1 | 9.5 % | ||
| Protection | 510.9 | 60.7 | 13.5 % | ||
| Transportation | 548.5 | 51.3 | 10.3 % | ||
Total Spending | 13,352.7 | 1,125.2 | 9.2 % |
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Total spending: 'guesstimated', as reported by the Office of Management and Budget and projected by usgovernmentspending.com.
Data Sources for 2025:
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
Data Sources for 2026:
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
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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: | $ | 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
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