The Bar Chart Data Source is the Monthly Treasury Statement (MTS) published by the U. S. Treasury Department. WE DON'T MAKE THIS UP! IT COMES FROM THE U. S. GOVERNMENT! NO ADJUSTMENTS. The MTS published in October contains the actual spending total for the previous FY that just ended (at the end of September).

You can see the President's Federal Budget Proposal here.

NDAC Challenge: Look at the bar chart to find items that are growing and items that are being reduced. Example: the largest growth departments are the Treasury Department (with Debt Interest) and Health and Human Services. HUD budget was reduced.

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Here is a critical view of the U.S. Budget.

NDAC studies the budget each year, which includes Budget Historical Tables published by OMB . Expenditures are shown in Table 4.1, scroll way to the right to find current years actuals and estimates. Our analysis is discussed on the home page of this web site.

!!!! One of the "big spending" departments in the Federal Government is the Department of Education. It's budget varies greatly from year to year. For FY2018, there was a dramatic reduction! Want to know more? See this. Schools get very little of that huge budget.