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US Taxpayer Exposure
Financial Bailouts of 2008.
From Quarterly Reports
of the Special Inspector General for TARP
| as of Dec. 31, 2013 | |||
| Gross US Government Bailout Outlays | $4.6 trillion | ||
| Includes gross TARP outlays, US Treasury outlays, and Federal Reserve outlays (not including repayments) | |||
| Net US Government Bailout Outlays (after repayments) | $3.3 trillion | ||
| Includes net TARP outlays, US Treasury outlays, and Federal Reserve outlays (less amount of repayments to US government) | |||
| US Government Bailout Guarantees | $16.9 trillion | ||
| Includes guarantees from US Treasury, Federal Reserve and other US government agencies | |||
Notes:Gross Outlays are actual expenditures of the US Treasury and/or the Federal Reserve Board to assist institutions during the financial crisis of 2008. For instance, under TARP the US government injected capital into big financial institutions to bolster their balance sheets. Net Outlays are actual expenditures of the US Treasury and/or the Federal Reserve Board less the amounts repayed by the recipients since the financial crisis of 2008. Guarantees are undertakings by US Treasury and/or the Federal Reserve Board to provide assistance during the financial crisis if needed. For instance the Federal Reserve Board asserted that it would guarantee $5.5 trillion in money market funds without actually lending any money to anyone. | |||
Sources:October 29, 2013 SIGTARP Quarterly Report to Congress April 25, 2012 SIGTARP Quarterly Report to Congress January 26, 2012 SIGTARP Quarterly Report to Congress October 27, 2011 SIGTARP Quarterly Report to Congress July 28, 2011 SIGTARP Quarterly Report to Congress April 28, 2011 SIGTARP Quarterly Report to Congress January 26, 2011 SIGTARP Quarterly Report to Congress October 26, 2010 SIGTARP Quarterly Report to Congress July 21, 2010 SIGTARP Quarterly Report to Congress April 20, 2010 SIGTARP Quarterly Report to Congress | |||
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Federal Budget for FY27 Released
On April 4, 2026, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the Public Budget Database in the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2027.
Here is how headline budget estimates for the upcoming FY 2027 fiscal year have changed since the release of the FY 2025 budget in Winter 2024. There were no budgetary estimates in the budget documents for the FY 2026 budget.
| $ billion | Estimate for 2027 in FY2025 Budget | Estimate for 2027 in FY2027 Budget | Change |
| Federal Outlays | $7,696.6 | $8,092.9 | +$569.1 |
| Federal Receipts | $6,186.2 | $5,921.0 | +$279.1 |
| Federal Deficit | $1,510.3 | $2,171.9 | +$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 2031 come from the Outlays table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on April 4, 2026.
Account level budget authority estimates through FY 2031 come from the Budget Authority table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on April 4, 2026.
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