Budget of the United States Government

Definition: Every year in February the President of the United States is required to send to Congress a budget request for the fiscal year that begins the following October.

Federal Budget Pie Chart

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FY21 Federal Budget also: Revenue Budget

Recent and budgeted headline federal budget numbers in the FY21 Budget including overall spending, deficit, and debt.



FY21 Federal Budget: Spending by Function

Recent and budgeted federal spending in the FY21 Budget

for major federal spending functions.

$ trillion nom 2019 2020 2021 Pensions 1.1 1.2 1.2 Health Care 1.2 1.3 1.4 Education 0.1 0.2 0.1 Defense 0.9 1.0 1.1 Welfare 0.4 0.4 0.4 source: actual budgeted

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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.

Other budgets:

FY86 FY87 FY88 FY89 FY90 FY91 FY92 FY93 FY94 FY95 FY96 FY97 FY98 FY99 FY00 FY01 FY02 FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20

Federal Budget in History

in dollars in percent GDP 1863 - Gross federal debt exceeded $1 billion for first time. 1865 - Federal spending exceeded $1 billion for first time. 1914 - Federal spending exceeded $1 billion for second time. 1918 - Gross federal debt exceeded $10 billion for first time. 1921 - Bureau of the Budget established by Budget and Accounting Act. 1943 - Gross federal debt exceeded $100 billion for first time. 1970 - Office of Management and Budget created. 1982 - Gross federal debt exceeded $1 trillion for first time. 1987 - Federal spending exceeded $1 trillion for first time. 2009 - Gross federal debt exceeded $10 trillion for first time. 1792 - Federal debt at 35 percent GDP. 1795 - Federal spending at two percent GDP. 1854 - Federal debt at one percent GDP. 1865 - Federal spending at 13 percent GDP at height of Civil War. 1867 - Federal debt at 32 percent GDP after Civil War. 1907 - Federal spending at 2.2 percent GDP. 1913 - Federal debt at 7.5 percent GDP. 1919 - Federal spending at 24 percent GDP at height of World War I. 1919 - Federal debt at 35 percent GDP after World War I. 1929 - Federal spending at 3.7 percent GDP. 1929 - Federal debt at 16 percent GDP. 1945 - Federal spending at 48 percent GDP at height of World War II. 1946 - Federal debt at 122 percent GDP after World War II. 1951 - Federal spending at 14.4 percent GDP. 1981 - Federal debt at 32 percent GDP. 1982 - Federal spending at 23 percent GDP. 1995 - Federal debt at 66 percent GDP. 2000 - Federal spending at 18 percent GDP. 2009 - Federal spending at 24 percent GDP. 2011 - Federal debt at 97 percent GDP.

Federal Budget Process

This Budget of the United States Government starts the annual “budget process” that ends when Congress passes and the president signs the annual appropriations bills or continuing resolutions to fund the federal government for another fiscal year.

On this page you can see headline numbers for budgeted spending (or “outlays”), deficits, and also for major spending functions. Click here for details of outlays by function for the next five years. Click here for budget authority by function for the next five years. Click here for Social Security. Click here for Medicare.

Source: Budget of the United States Government.