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usgovernmentspending.com has data on US government spending going back to 1792.
- Federal spending goes back to 1792
- State and local spending for all states combined goes back to 1890.
- State and local spending for individual states goes back to 1957.
Spending data is primarily organized by major spending function, such as Pensions, Health Care, etc. You can look at data for a single year or a range of years.
Look at Spending Data for Single Year
Federal, State, and Local Spending TOTALS for current year or for
Total Spending Functional BREAKDOWN for current year or for
Federal, State, and Local Spending DETAILS for current year or for
Spending DETAILS for individual cities, counties, etc. for latest year.
Look at Spending Data Series over a range of years
You can look at individual data series or combine up to 5 data series together.
Total Spending for the last ten years.
Total Spending for the last ten years.
Once you have set up a single data series, you can add additional data series, change the range of years, change the units, etc.
General Overview of Data on This Site
The idea of usgovernmentspending.com is to provide a resource for people wanting to research US government finances. We have generated curated data series of the major functions of government spending so that you can inspect and download the numbers on spending at all levels of government.
For the federal government we have data going back to 1792, shortly after the founding. The data going back to 1962 come from the President’s annual federal budget. Data from 1961 going back to 1792 comes from data series published by the US Census Bureau.
For individual states we have state and local government spending going back to 1957. For states and local governments in aggregate we have full data going back to 1900, and limited data going back to 1820.
If you are interested in data for a specific year we have a Spending Details page that shows the major spending functions for a specific year, federal, state, and local, and that allows you do drill down a couple of levels to view (and download) the data in more detail.
If you are interested in data for a range of years we have a Custom Chart page that lets you generate data on spending for a range of years. It allows you to generate charts, look at data, and download the data to your computer in tab format that you can copy and paste into a spreadsheet, or as a .csv file that you can import directly into a spreadsheet program.
The best thing to do is to experiment with the Spending Details page or the Custom Chart page and see what they can do for you. Also you can look around the site at the Spending Analysis and Spending History pages. These pages and their charts were created using the features that are also available to you.
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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.
Gross Federal Debt
| 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:
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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Federal Deficit, Receipts, Outlays Actuals for FY 2025
On October 16, 2025, the US Treasury reported in its Monthly Treasury Statement (and xlsx) for September that the federal deficit for FY 2025 ending September 30, 2025, was $1,775 billion. Here are the numbers, including total receipts, total outlays, and deficit compared with the numbers projected in the FY 2025 federal budget published in February 2024:
| Federal Finances FY 2025 Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Budget billions | Outcome billions | ||
| Receipts | $5,485 | $5,235 | |
| Outlays | $7,226 | $7,010 | |
| Deficit | $1,781 | $1,775 | |
We use the spending projections from the FY 2025 budget because the Federal government did not publish spending projections in its Budget for Fiscal Year 2026 as originally published in May 2025.
The Monthly Treasury Statement includes "Table 4: Receipts of the United States Government, September 2025 and Other Periods." This table of receipts by source is used for usgovernmentspending.com to post details of federal receipt actuals for FY 2025. usdgovernmentspending.com obtains the data for outlays and receipts from apis at fiscaldata.treasury.gov.
This MTS report on FY 2025 actuals is a problem for usgovernmentspending.com because this site uses Historical Table 3.2--Outlays by Function and Subfunction from the Budget of the United States as its basic source for federal subfunction outlays. But the Monthly Treasury Statement only includes "Table 9. Summary of Receipts by Source, and Outlays by Function of the U.S. Government, September 2025 and Other Periods". Subfunction amounts don't get reported until the FY27 budget in February 2026. Until then usgovernmentspending.com estimates actual outlays by "subfunction" for FY 2025 by factoring subfunction budgeted amounts for FY25 by the ratio between relevant actual and budgeted "function" amounts where actual outlays by subfunction cannot be gleaned from the Monthly Treasury Statement.
On September 11, 2025 we updated the state and local spending and revenue for FY 2023 using the new Census Bureau ...
In March 2025 the US Census Bureau released data on state finances for FY 2023 here and ...
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