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The federal budget at a glance

The federal government spent more than it collected.

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Spent — — Where it went → Collected — — Where it came from → Borrowed (the deficit) — — How every president compares → Total debt — — Where it's headed →

Every dollar spent went to…

…and was paid for by

More detail: the official statement figures and context ratios

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Receipts FY YTD — Prior FY: — MTS Table 1 ↗
Outlays FY YTD — Prior FY: — MTS Table 1 ↗
Deficit FY YTD — Prior FY: — MTS Table 1 ↗
Net interest FY YTD — Gross: — · Trust-fund offset: — MTS Table 9 ↗
Total public debt outstanding — Held by public: — · Intragov: — MSPD Table 1 ↗

In context: relative to the economy and the population

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Debt held by the public % of GDP — CBO baseline
Deficit % of GDP — CBO baseline
Net interest share of receipts — Computed from Treasury data
Net interest % of GDP — CBO baseline
Debt per person total public debt ÷ population — World Bank population
Deficit per person deficit ÷ population — World Bank population

Where the money went

Pick a year and a month to see where every dollar went

Each Monthly Treasury Statement reports that month's spending by budget function and receipts by source. Choose a fiscal year (October–September) and a month — or the whole year — and switch between spending and revenue. Click a month's bar to jump to it, or click any category to see it month by month.

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Source: Treasury Monthly Treasury Statement, Table 9 ↗

History & presidents

65 years of federal budgets, by administration

Fiscal years 1962–2025 from the Congressional Budget Office's historical budget data, plus the latest completed fiscal year from Treasury. Click a president — or any year's bar — to dig in.

Shares of GDP make 1962 and today comparable; raw dollars mostly show inflation and a larger economy.

Who led Congress, 1961 to today — and how long its members had served
Compare every administration side by side
Administration Fiscal years Avg deficit, % GDP Avg spending, % GDP Avg revenue, % GDP Debt, % GDP (start → end) Total borrowed
Treasury's own year-end statements, last ten fiscal years

Every figure below is a published fiscal-year total (October through September), fetched live from the Treasury Fiscal Data API — the Monthly Treasury Statement (Tables 1 and 9) and the Monthly Statement of the Public Debt (Table 1), restricted to September 30 record dates. Nothing is adjusted, annualized, or projected.

Deficit by fiscal year

Source: Treasury MTS Table 1, fiscal year-end statements ↗

Net interest by fiscal year

Source: Treasury MTS Table 9, fiscal year-end statements ↗

Total public debt outstanding at fiscal year end

Source: Treasury MSPD Table 1, September 30 statements ↗

Fiscal year totals (trillions of dollars)

Fiscal year Receipts Outlays Deficit Net interest Total debt (Sep 30)

Sources: Treasury MTS Table 1 (receipts, outlays, deficit) · MTS Table 9 (net interest) · MSPD Table 1 (debt). Deficit is published as outlays minus receipts.

Where it's headed

CBO's current-law projections, FY2026–FY2036

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Debt held by the public, % of GDP — 1962 to 2036 (actual + projected)

Source: CBO Historical Budget Data and 10-Year Budget Projections, machine-readable copies from the CBO Open Data Repository

Outlays, revenues, and deficit under current law, FY2026–FY2036 (billions of dollars)

Source: CBO The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2026 to 2036

Balance it yourself

Congress hasn't balanced the budget since FY2001. Can you?

Every agency's spending and every source of revenue is below, at its actual published amount. Slide any line up or down, or add your own, and watch the balance update. The bar stays pinned at the top while you work.

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Outlays by agency net outlays · billions of dollars

Receipts by source billions of dollars

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Static arithmetic illustration — not an official score. Percent changes apply to the published baseline; no behavioral responses, macroeconomic feedback, administrative costs, or the interest savings that lower deficits would eventually produce are modeled. The Treasury line includes gross interest on debt already issued, which is a legal obligation. Source: Treasury MTS Table 3 ↗

Pre-built packages Two illustrative ways to close the gap — all revenue, all cuts, or a mix

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    Illustrative scenario B

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      Static arithmetic. Baselines use FY2026 outlays where a budget function maps directly to a Treasury line; others are documented approximations. Benefit levels are set by statute and would require changes in law.

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      Spending scenario

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      Net interest is excluded from both scenarios: it is a legal obligation on debt already issued, and it cannot be reduced without refinancing or default. The revenue scenario touches corporate tax compliance, very large fortunes, the payroll-tax cap, capital gains, carried interest, and the estate tax; the spending scenario touches Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, marketplace subsidies, education, veterans' programs, and means-tested assistance.

      Methodology & caveats Read this before drawing conclusions
      • Live data. Receipts, outlays, and the deficit are fiscal-year totals from the Treasury Monthly Treasury Statement (MTS Table 1), fetched directly from the Treasury Fiscal Data API in your browser. Net interest is the MTS budget-function "Net Interest" line (Table 9). Gross interest on Treasury debt securities and interest received by trust funds are from MTS Table 7. Total public debt is from the Monthly Statement of the Public Debt (MSPD Table 1). If the API is unreachable, the page falls back to reference copies shipped with the page, labeled as such.
      • Fiscal year. The federal fiscal year runs October through September. FY2026 covers October 2025 – September 2026. Through FY1976 it ran July through June; the three months July–September 1976 were a one-time "transition quarter" that belongs to no fiscal year and is not shown in the yearly history.
      • Monthly detail. "Where the money went" uses each month's own Monthly Treasury Statement (Table 9): net outlays by budget function and receipts by source for that month. Full-year figures are the latest statement's fiscal-year-to-date column, which includes Treasury's later revisions to earlier months; individual months are shown as first published, so they can add up to a slightly different total. Two lines — "Undistributed Offsetting Receipts" and sometimes "Commerce and Housing Credit" — are negative because collections offset spending; shares are of the net total, so the positive shares add to slightly more than 100%. Monthly statements begin in FY2015 in the API; FY2016 is the first complete year.
      • Administrations. Each fiscal year is assigned to the president in office on the day it began (October 1; July 1 before FY1977, when the fiscal year ran July–June) — usually the one whose budget request and signature set its laws. By that rule FY1975, which began July 1, 1974, counts for Richard Nixon, who resigned that August. So FY2009 counts for George W. Bush and FY2021 for Donald Trump's first term, even though recessions and emergency laws signed after January also shaped them. Presidents propose; Congress writes the spending and tax laws, so the Congress in session when each fiscal year began is shown alongside, with its party leaders (Speaker, Senate Majority Leader, and both minority leaders). Where a leader changed mid-Congress, each holder is listed in order. In the 107th Congress the Senate majority switched to the Democrats in June 2001. "Years in Congress" counts service in either chamber, gaps excluded, up to January of the year the Congress convened; service records follow the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress. History FY1962–FY2025 is CBO's historical budget data (categories exactly as CBO publishes them); the most recent year comes from Treasury's year-end statement with GDP implied by CBO's projection for that year, and has no category detail until CBO publishes it.
      • Ratios and projections. Shares of GDP come from CBO; net interest as a share of receipts and per-person figures (Treasury totals ÷ World Bank population — a simple ratio, not an official statistic) are computed on this page. The projections panel shows CBO's current-law baseline (vintage 2026-02). Baseline projections assume laws in place as of January 14, 2026; they are estimates of what current law would produce, not predictions or endorsements.
      • Scenarios and the budget builder are static arithmetic. They add or subtract dollar amounts. They do not model behavioral responses (work, saving, investment, consumption), macroeconomic feedback, interest-rate effects, or administrative costs. The builder lists net outlays by agency and receipts by source exactly as published in MTS Table 3; totals can differ from headline totals by rounding (±$0.1B).
      • Not official scores. Scenario line items are approximations for illustration only. They are not Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scores, Treasury estimates, or the proposal of any organization.
      • Local archive. Every retrieval is saved as a timestamped snapshot in this browser's local storage — values, ten-year history, and the exact API queries — and can be downloaded as JSON or re-imported later. If the same record date ever returns different figures, the page flags the difference and keeps both copies; a fixed reference copy captured 2026-10-24 ships with the code as a baseline.
      Sources Every number on this page, traceable

      Data archive Every retrieval is recorded, timestamped, and exportable

      Each time this page retrieves live figures, it saves a snapshot in this browser: the values shown, the ten-year history, the exact API queries used, and the retrieval time. Published federal figures are sometimes revised in later statements — for example, FY2024 outlays were first published as $6.752T and revised to $6.735T in the following year's statement — so snapshots preserve what was published at each moment, and any later change to the same record date is flagged and both copies kept. Nothing leaves your browser: the archive stays in local storage until you export or clear it.

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