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US Federal Budget Charts
Create and customize charts of federal spending.
FY26 Federal Budget Spending Chart Factory
for Fiscal Years 2025 - 2029
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| Spending Units: By default, government spending is displayed in billions of dollars. But using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select billions of 2017 dollars, percent of GDP, 2017 dollars per capita, percent of federal spending, or percent of total spending. Chart Title: You can create a title for your chart. Use the text field to enter a title and click the button to the right of the text field. Chart Size: By default, the chart is displayed at medium size. But you can use the dropdown control to change the size. US Budget Year: By default, the chart displays budgeted and estimated federal spending in the current US Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at previous budgeted numbers using this dropdown control. Mandatory: By default the chart shows all spending without regard to mandatory or discretionary. Select Mandatory if you
want to chart only federal Mandatory spending, Discretionary if you want to chart only federal Discretionary spending, Both if you want both federal Mandatory and Discretionary spending broken out using the dropdown control in the table heading. |
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The table shows overall budgeted federal expenditures for major functions for the next five years, as estimated in the historical tables in the current presidential budget. You can compare these estimates with the actual expenditures for the most recent historical fiscal year.
You can change the budget to be analyzed or drill down to view more detailed spending information.
Notes
Data Sources: Federal spending from Budget of the United States Government.
For a discussion of the sources of the government spending data used here read How We Got the Data for usgovernmentspending.com.
Budget Updates: The president’s budget is typically published each year in February.
Download Federal Budget Data for 2025-2029
You can download budget data as a CSV file or directly as a tab-delimited table.
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Tab-delimited Table
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Below is a formatted version of the data displayed in the chart.
| Year | Inflation | GDP-US $ billion nominal | Population-US million | Total Spending - Federal $ billion nominal | ||
| 2025 | 2.75 | 29340.3 | g | 343.448 | 7265.96 | b |
| 2026 | 2.66 | 30552.7 | g | 346.818 | 7419.39 | b |
| 2027 | 2.74 | 31815.6 | g | 350.221 | 7696.58 | b |
| 2028 | 2.78 | 33129.2 | g | 353.657 | 8082.51 | b |
| 2029 | 2.85 | 34510.8 | g | 357.128 | 8312.84 | b |
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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: | $37,467,893,078,454.54 | Debt 2/2020: | $23,409,959,150,243.63 |
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Data Sources for 2025_2029:
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
Sources for 2029:
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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> data update schedule.
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State and Local Finances for 2023
On September 11, 2025 we updated the state and local spending and revenue for FY 2023 using the new Census Bureau State and Local Government Finances summaries for FY 2023 released on July 31, 2025. (See also Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances). The release includes state and local spending for the United States as a whole and the 50 individual states and the District of Columbia.
State and local spending and revenue for FY2023 are now actual historical spending as reported by the Census Bureau. In addition, the Census Bureau published updated tables for 2021 and 2022.
We have updated the "guesstimated" state and local finances for FY2024-30 as indicated in our "guesstimate" blog entries.
We have also updated data for individual local government units with data for 2023.
Beginning in 2022 the Census Bureau has changed the value for Line 56 Direct Expenditure and Line 7 General Revenue from own sources, as follows:
We have decided to end our publication of non-insurance trust cash and security holdings.
However, to keep the time series at usgovernmentspending.com consistent, we have decided to add insurance-trust values back into Line 56 and Line 7 values.
In March 2025 the US Census Bureau released data on state finances for FY 2023 here and ...
On June 24, 2025, usgovernmentspending.com updated its data for agency debt from the Federal Reserve Board database. Data is now available for the period 1945-2024. You can see our Agency Debt page ...
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Biden to Release 2023 Budget Request on March 28
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