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What is the Total US Government Revenue?
In FY 2026, total US government revenue, federal, state, and local, is “guesstimated” to be $10.78 trillion, with federal $5.48 trillion; state $3.21 trillion; local $2.09 trillion.
US Government Revenue Totals in $ trillion
Total government revenue in the United States is the sum of federal, state, and local government revenue.
Total government revenue includes:
Federal Receipts
plus State government Direct Revenue
plus Local government Direct Revenue.
Total Government Revenue | |||
| Federal Direct Revenue | $2.8 trillion |  | |
| State Direct Revenue | $1.7 trillion | | |
| Local Direct Revenue | $1.2 trillion | | |
| Total Revenue | $5.6 trillion | | |
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Revenue Key:
Federal receipts: actual, as reported by the Office of Management and Budget.
State revenue: actual, as reported by the US Bureau of the Census.
Local revenue: actual, as reported by the US Bureau of the Census.
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Revenue Data Sources
Revenue data is from official government sources.
- Federal revenue data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
- All other revenue data comes from the US Census Bureau.
Gross Domestic Product data comes from US Bureau of Economic Analysis and measuringworth.com.
Detailed table of revenue data sources here.
Federal revenue data begins in 1792.
State and local revenue data begins in 1820.
State and local revenue data for individual states begins in 1957.
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Data Sources for 2013:
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Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
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Federal Budget for FY27 Released
On April 4, 2026, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the Public Budget Database in the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2027.
Here is how headline budget estimates for the upcoming FY 2027 fiscal year have changed since the release of the FY 2025 budget in Winter 2024. There were no budgetary estimates in the budget documents for the FY 2026 budget.
| $ billion | Estimate for 2027 in FY2025 Budget | Estimate for 2027 in FY2027 Budget | Change |
| Federal Outlays | $7,696.6 | $8,092.9 | +$569.1 |
| Federal Receipts | $6,186.2 | $5,921.0 | +$279.1 |
| Federal Deficit | $1,510.3 | $2,171.9 | +$290.0 |
You can see line item changes from budget to budget here. You can compare budget estimates with actuals here.
Account level spending estimates through FY 2031 come from the Outlays table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on April 4, 2026.
Account level budget authority estimates through FY 2031 come from the Budget Authority table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on April 4, 2026.
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On January 21, 2026 the US Census Bureau released its US national and state population estimates for July 1, 2025. On February 7, 2026 usgovernmentspending.com updated its US and state popula ...
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