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Tea Party Fact Sheet

A usgovernmentspending.com brief by Christopher Chantrill

Government Spending since 1900

Chart S.03t: Total Spending as Percent GDP

Would you believe it? Back in 1902 the government spent only six percent of our national income for public use. That was for everything: defense, education, the Post Office. Today in 2016 the government takes almost 36 percent of our nation’s product. And for what?

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Government Debt since 1900

Chart D.13t: Total National Debt as Percent GDP

Used to be that the National Debt only went up to pay for wars. Then President Reagan increased the debt to win the Cold War. Now President Obama is increasing the debt to bail out the banks — and anyone else that needs a cool trillion or so.
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Decline of the Dollar

The federal government took control of the nation’s money supply in 1913. President Roosevelt cut the value of the dollar to get out of the Great Depression. President Nixon cut it again to get re-elected in 1972. Now the dollar is worth about 3 cents of the dollar in 1913. You decide how well the feds have done.

Welfare Spending. Destroying the low-income family

Chart S.33t: Welfare Spending Since 1965

The great achievement of government welfare programs is that now 40 percent of children are born out of wedlock and over 30 percent of children of high-school dropouts aren’t living with both parents.
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Education Spending. Dumbing us down

Chart 2.52: TEducation Spending by Government Level

Back in 1842 Horace Mann promised that public schools would cut the crime rate by 90 percent. That was when nearly all Americans were able to read. Today the government reckons that only 13 percent of adult Americans are “proficient” in literacy and numeracy. But government spending on education has never been higher.
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Prepared by Christopher Chantrill.
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Federal Budget for FY25 Released

On March 11, 2024, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the Public Budget Database in the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2025.

Here is how headline budget estimates for the upcoming FY 2024 fiscal year have changed since the release of the FY 2024 budget a year ago in Winter 2023.

**Federal Budget Changes for 2024**
$ billion	Estimate for 2024 in FY2024 Budget	Estimate for 2024 in FY2025 Budget	Change
Federal Outlays	$6,371.8	$6,940.9	+$569.1
Federal Receipts	$4,802.5	$5,081.6	+$279.1
Federal Deficit	$1,569.4	$1,859.4	+$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 2029 come from the Outlays table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on March 11, 2024.

Account level budget authority estimates through FY 2029 come from the Budget Authority table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on March 11, 2024.