Every budget has two sides. Explore who pays, what government funds, and the agencies moving the money.
Actuals · nominal USD · OMB FY 2027 vintage
01 / MONEY IN$5.24T
Taxes & other receipts
Budget deficit$1.77T
THE FEDERAL BUDGET
02 / MONEY OUT$7.01T
Total federal outlays
FY 2025. Receipts + deficit = net outlays (or receipts − surplus = outlays). The deficit is a financing gap, not tax revenue. Negative outlays and offsetting receipts remain in the detailed ledger below. OMB’s later publication vintage can differ from Treasury MTS figures on the overview.
OPEN THE LEDGER
Follow a category through time.
MAKE IT PERSONAL
Your share of the priorities.
Allocate an illustrative tax payment using the FY 2025 net spending mix. This is a proportional illustration, not a tracing of your payment or a tax estimate.
Social Security$2,254.53
Medicare$1,421.63
Health$1,395.66
Net interest$1,383.61
National Defense$1,306.70
Income Security$1,000.71
Veterans Benefits and Services$537.95
Transportation$207.27
Natural Resources and Environment$128.13
Administration of Justice$118.59
Community and Regional Development$117.49
Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services$102.75
Agriculture$67.67
International Affairs$64.43
General Science, Space, and Technology$59.86
General Government$57.83
Energy$29.62
Allowances$0.00
Commerce and Housing Credit−$40.12
Undistributed offsetting receipts−$214.31
Includes negative offsets; minor rounding differences may occur. Shares are of net outlays, which include deficit-financed spending.
Contract and assistance obligations are another accounting layer. Explore those records in . 125 years of total budget history remain available in Debt & the dollar.
A CLEAR ANSWER / FOLLOW THE SOURCE
Are federal awards the same as total government spending?
No. Contracts and assistance records report obligations. The federal budget reports outlays. Interest, benefits and other spending cannot be understood by adding award records to budget outlays; the measures overlap and use different timing.