United States Government Spending - Site Map

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home		Home page with charts of spending, debt, deficit, and GDP
numbers		Table of federal, state, and local spending data by major spending function. Also individual states. Drill down for details
custom_chart		Customize your own chart of government spending and/or download data. Also debt and deficits
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
tour		Take a tour of usgovernmentspending.com and its features
blog		Check usgovernmentspending.com blog for news
FAQs		Check usgovernmentspending.com blog for FAQs
download year		Download a year of spending data. US or state data
download multiyear		Download up to 5 data series. US or state data
taxes		Switch to usgovernmentrevenue.com for government revenue data

Gross Federal Debt

Debt Now:	$37,467,893,078,454.54
Debt 2/2020:	$23,409,959,150,243.63

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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.

State Spending for 2023
In March 2025 the US Census Bureau released data on state finances for FY 2023 here and ...

Agency Debt Update for 2024
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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