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Total Budgeted* Government Spending
Expenditure GDP – CHARTS – Deficit Debt
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Expenditure / Pie Chart
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Deficit / Debt
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GDP / Spending by Function
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* Federal expenditure after 2008 is budgeted. State expenditure after 2007 and local expenditure after 2007 are “guesstimated.”
There’s much, much more:
What is the spending data; where is it from?
- Federal spending data begins in 1792.
- State and local spending data begins in 1902.
- Spending data is from official government sources.
Federal data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau.
- Gross Domestic Product data comes from measuringworth.com.
Federal data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau.
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Data Sources for 2009:
GDP: US Budget FY10 Table 10.1
Federal: Budget of the US Government
State: State and Local Gov. Finances
> data sources for other years
Headline
US Deficit for FY09
From
Joint Statement by Tim Geithner
and Peter Orszag on 10/16/2009
Compare with Mid-session Review of August 2009, Final FY 2010 US Budget of May 2009, and FY 2009 Budget of February 2008.
US Federal Budget Totals
Amounts in $ trillion
| FY2009 | Final | 8/2009 est. | 5/2009 est. | 2/2008 budget |
| Receipts | $2.11 | $2.07 | $2.15 | $2.70 |
| Outlays | $3.52 | $3.56 | $3.99 | $3.11 |
| Deficit | $1.42 | $1.58 | $1.84 | $0.41 |
Compare with numbers on usgovernmentspending.com, which remain those in the US Budget Historical Tables for FY 2010 as published May 11, 2009.
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