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numbers		Table of federal, state, and local spending data by major spending function. Also individual states. Drill down for details
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analysis		Analysis briefs on government spending
past_spending		History of government spending
pie chart		Pie charts for total, federal, state, and local spending
debt deficit		Charts and text on federal deficit for last 200 years
debt analysis		Charts and text on federal debt for last 200 years
compare states		Comparison tables of individual state spending
us budget		Charts and tables on federal budget
spend_history		Charts and briefing on US government spending for last 100 years
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Gross Federal Debt

Debt Now:	$39,375,989,952,866.26
Debt 2/2020:	$23,409,959,150,243.63

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State and Local Finances for 2024 -- First Look

On July 2, 2026 we updated the state and local spending and revenue for FY 2024 using the new Census Bureau State and Local Government Finances "first look"summaries for FY 2024 released in April 2026. (See also Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances). The release includes state and local spending for the United States as a whole. It does not include the 50 individual states and the District of Columbia.

State and local spending and revenue for FY2024 are now actual historical spending as reported by the Census Bureau.

We have updated the "guesstimated" state and local finances for FY2025-31 as indicated in our "guesstimate" blog entries.

Beginning in 2021, the Census Bureau stopped splitting "Public welfare" into three parts:

Cash assistance payments
Vendor payments
Other public welfare

This is a problem for usgovernmentspending.com, because most of "Vendor payments" are for health care and are just pass-through grants from the federal government. So, for the time being, we are splitting "Public welfare" into the proportions that obtained in 2021.

Medicare/Social Security 2026 Trustees Report Released
On June 16, 2026, the Center for Medicare Services released its annual ...

CBO Long Term Budget Outlook for 2026
On February 25, 2026 the Congressional Budget Office released its annual Long Term Budget Outlook for 2026, which projects ...

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