Spending

Spending Analyses
Total Spending Analysis Federal Spending Analysis State Spending Analysis Local Spending Analysis
Entitlement Analyses
Entitlement Spending Analysis Social Security Analysis Medicare Analysis Medicaid Analysis Welfare Analysis
Education Analyses
Total Education Analysis Federal Education Analysis State Education Analysis Local Education Analysis
Federal Mandatory Spending Analysis
Interest Analyses
Total Interest Analysis Federal Interest Analysis State Interest Analysis Local Interest Analysis
Defense Analysis Great Enrichment Federal Grant Analysis US Inflation Analysis TARP Bailout Analysis
Revenue Analyses
Total Revenue Analysis Federal Revenue Analysis State Revenue Analysis Local Revenue Analysis
Federal Budget Analysis

Deficit – Debt

Federal Deficit Analysis Deficit Analysis as Percent GDP Deficit Analysis as Percent Spending
Debt Analyses
Total Debt Analysis Federal Debt Analysis State Debt Analysis Local Debt Analysis
Federal Yield Curve Analysis Federal Agency Debt Analysis

Spending 101

Spending 101 Courses Taxes 101 Courses

History

Current Spending Brief Recent Spending Brief Future Spending Brief Overall History Defense Spending History
Social Spending History
Entitlement Spending History Pensions Spending History Health Care Spending History Education Spending History Welfare Spending History
States Spending History Debt Deficit History Recent Debt History Agency Debt History Revenue History

Deficit Analysis

Federal Deficit Federal Deficit as Percent GDP Federal Deficit as Percent Spending Deficit History Download Deficit

Debt Analysis

Debt Clock
Debt Analyses
Total Debt Analysis Federal Debt Analysis State Debt Analysis Local Debt Analysis
Federal Agency Debt Analysis Debt History Recent Debt History Agency Debt History Download Debt

State Spending

State Spending Rank State Welfare Spending Rank State Debt Rank
State Spending Maps
Total State Spending Map Pension State Spending Map Health Care State Spending Map Education State Spending Map Welfare State Spending Map State Debt Map
State Spending Bubble Charts
Total State Spending Bubble Chart Pensions State Spending Bubble Chart Health State Spending Bubble Chart Education State Spending Bubble Chart Welfare State Spending Bubble Chart State Debt Bubble Chart
States GDP Rank States History States Taxes

Headline

Total Spending Overview Federal Spending Overview State Spending Overview Local Spending Overview Total Spending in trillions Breakdown in trillions Breakdown as percent GDP Breakdown as per capita

US Spending Details

Spending Details Spending in Percent GDP Spending per Capita Spending Change
Spending Pie Charts
Total Spending Pie Chart Federal Spending Pie Chart State Spending Pie Chart Local Spending Pie Chart
Welfare Spending Defense Spending Pension Spending Health Care Spending Education Spending

Download

Download Central Download Year Spend Download Multi Years Download Deficit Download Debt Download Raw Data Download Taxes

Chart Galleries

Total Spending Federal Spending State Spending Local Spending Federal Budget Estimates Federal Budget Estimate vs. Actual Total Debt Federal Debt

Bar Charts

Make Spending Chart Make Local Spending Chart Make Federal Budget Chart Make Fed. Budget Chart Est. vs. Actual Make Debt Chart Social Security OASI Chart Social Security DI Chart
Medicare Charts
Overall Medicare Chart Medicare HI Chart Medicare SMI Chart Medicare Advantage Chart Medicare SMI Drug Chart
US GDP Chart Chart Wizard

Pie Charts

US Pie Chart Federal Pie Chart Federal Budget Pie Chart State Pie Chart State & Local Pie Chart Local Pie Chart

Current Budget

Current Budget FY2027 Chart Gallery Budget Outlays Actual Outlay Details Est. vs. Actual Outlays Budget Authority Estimated Budget Authority vs. Actual Revenue Budget

Budget Misc

Previous Budgets
FY2026 BudgetFY2025 BudgetFY2024 BudgetFY2023 BudgetFY2022 BudgetFY2021 Budget
Compare Budgets Interest Analysis CBO Long Term Medicare Trustees Soc. Security Trustees

Budget Bar Charts

Budget Forecasts Budget Estimate vs. Actual Custom Budget Chart Budget Est. vs. Actual Charts

Revenue Data

Taxes Home Revenue Totals Revenue Breakdown Revenue Details Revenue Change Chart Gallery Revenue Analysis Revenue History Revenue Budget State Taxes

Revenue Charts

Chart Gallery Make Custom Chart

Analysis & History

Revenue Analysis Revenue History
Taxes 101

FAQ

Data Sources Spending Category Definitions Federal Budget Medicare Breakdown State/Local Spending Federal/State GDP

FAQ cont.

US Population All About Welfare WWI WWII Defense All About "Guesstimates" Intergovernmental Transfers Feds Borrow More Than Deficit Data Update Schedule All FAQs

Site Tour

Site Tour

Blog by Year

Blog for 2026Blog for 2025Blog for 2024Blog for 2023Blog for 2022Blog for 2021Blog for 2020
 Site Map  enter code:
Monday October 19, 2026 
compiled by Christopher Chantrill

What is the Federal Grant Spending?

In the Public Budget Database each spending item is tagged as Grant or Nongrant. This analysis shows history of federal grant spending as distributed across various federal functions. The biggest grant item is Medicaid grants to states.

Spending Analyses:

Debt, Deficit Analyses:

Numbers — Charts:

 

    Contact    
smaller text  bigger text    print view

Federal Grant Analysis  

Recent US Federal Grant Spending

Recent US Federal Grant Spending

Chart S.91f: Recent US Federal Grant Spending

Federal Grant spending increased steadily in the 2010s with a bump during the Great Recession. In the COVID years grant spending jumped from $720 billion in 2020 to $1,245 billion in 2022.

At the end of FY2026 federal grant spending was $1,243 billion, of which $715 billion was for Medicaid.

Make Custom Debt Chart  •  Download Debt Data  •  Debt History

Recent US Federal Grants as Pct GDP

Chart S.92f: Recent US Federal Grants as Pct GDP

Viewed as percent of GDP federal grant spending was steady at about 3 percent GDP during the 2010s with a surge to 4 percent GDP during the Great Recession. In the COVID years federal grant spending exploded to 4.7 percent GDP in 2022.

At the end of FY2026 the federal grant spending was 4.1 percent of GDP, of which 2.3 percent of GDP was for Medicaid.

Major Federal Grant Spending Categories

Major Federal Grant Spending Categories

Chart S.93f: Major Federal Grant Spending Categories

The largest federal grant spending category is Medicaid grants to the states, amounting to over one percent of GDP in 2007. The next highest is welfare, at about 0.5 percent of GDP in 2007. Then education, transportation, and other categories. During the COVID years, economic assistance, reaching almost one percent of GDP in 2022, was provided with General Government grants.

The trend in federal grants is upward, as a percent of GDP, with Medicaid grants reaching 2 percent of GDP in 2022.

US Federal Grant Spending Since 1962

Federal Grant Spending since 1962

Chart S.94f: Federal Grant Spending since 1962

Federal grant spending began the 1960s at 1.3 percent GDP, but then surged in the 1970s to over 3 percent GDP. In the 1980s grant spending declined to 2 percent GDP, but in the decades since has steadily increased, hitting 3 percent GDP in 2003, 3.9 percent GDP in 2011, and 4.7 percent GDP during COVID in 2022.

Suggested Video: All About Debt

Top Debt Requests:

Find DEFICIT stats and history.

US BUDGET overview and pie chart.

Find NATIONAL DEBT today.

See FEDERAL BUDGET breakdown and estimated vs. actual.

See BAR CHARTS of debt, debt.

Check STATE debt: CA NY TX FL and compare.

See DEBT ANALYSIS briefing.

See DEBT HISTORY briefing.

Take a COURSE at Spending 101.

Make your own CUSTOM CHART.

Debt Data Sources

Debt data is from official government sources.

Gross Domestic Product data comes from US Bureau of Economic Analysis and measuringworth.com.

Detailed table of debt data sources here.

Federal debt data begins in 1792.

State and local debt data begins in 1820.

State and local debt data for individual states begins in 1957.

More Topics

Federal Yield Curve
Click to view

Gross Federal Debt

Debt Now:  $40,388,317,675,071.91
Debt 2/2020:$23,409,959,150,243.63

Videos

 Spending 101

 What is the Deficit?

 All About Debt

 All About Welfare

 US Defense Spending

 Taxes 101

 All About Income Tax
 

Site Search

Spending 101

Take a course in government spending:

Spending | Federal Debt | Revenue
Defense | Welfare | Healthcare | Education
Debt History | Entitlements | Deficits
State Spending | State Taxes | State Debt

It’s free!

Win Cash for Bugs

File a valid bug report and get a $5 Amazon Gift Certificate.

Top Links

Headline Spending

Federal Debt Chart

Federal Deficit Chart

Debt, Deficit History

Federal Budget Charts

Federal Budget Numbers

Welfare Spending

Get the Books


Price: $0.99
Or download
for free.
From
usgovernment
spending.com
Price: $1.99
Life after liberalism Price: $0.99
Or download
for free.

US Government Spending 2020: only 99¢.

US Government Spending 2012: free.

Data Sources for 2022_2031:

Sources for 2022:

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 2031:

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

> data sources for other years
> data update schedule.

Blog

US Budget Deficit, Receipts, Outlays for FY 2026

On October 15, 2026, the US Treasury reported in its Monthly Treasury Statement (and xlsx) for September that the federal deficit for FY 2025 ending September 30, 2026, was $1,99 billion. Here are the numbers, including total receipts, total outlays, and deficit compared with the numbers projected in the FY 2026 federal budget published in February 2025:

Federal Finances
FY 2026 Outcomes
Budget
billions		Outcome
billions
Receipts $5,873    $5,403
Outlays$7,419$7,396
Deficit$1,547$1,993

The Monthly Treasury Statement includes "Table 4: Receipts of the United States Government, September 2026 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 2026 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 FY28 budget in February 2027. Until then usgovernmentspending.com estimates actual outlays by "subfunction" for FY 2026 by factoring subfunction budgeted amounts for FY26 by the ratio between relevant actual and budgeted "function" amounts where actual outlays by subfunction cannot be gleaned from the Monthly Treasury Statement.

Final detailed FY 2026 actuals will not appear on usgovernmentspending.com until the FY 2028 federal budget is published in February 2027 with the actual outlays for FY 2026* in Historical Table 3.2--Outlays by Function and Subfunction.
State and Local Finances for 2024
On August 7, 2026 we updated the state and local spending and revenue for FY 2024 using the new Census Bureau ...

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 S ...

> blog

Budget News

President’s FY 2025 Budget Release Scheduled for March 11
Although the FY 2024 appropriations process is not yet resolved

Biden to Release Budget March 9
will press McCarthy On Default Risk - Bloomberg

Biden to Release 2023 Budget Request on March 28
how the administration expects to spend money for priorities including aid to Ukraine and the continuing effort to fight the coronavirus pandemic, as well as legislative proposals such as increased funding for community policing programs, cancer research, and mental health education.

> archive

Spend Links

us numbers • us budget • custom chart • deficit/gdp • spend/gdp • debt/gdp • us gdp • us real gdp • state gdp • breakdown • federal • state • local • 2025 • 2026 • 2027 • california • texas

Masthead

usgovernmentspending.com was designed and executed by:

Christopher Chantrill.

Email here.

presented by Christopher Chantrill

Data Sources  •   •  Contact

closed