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What are the Federal Budget Actuals for FY 2025?
From US Treasury Monthly Report for September 2025.
Total Federal Outlays: $7.27 trillion
Total Federal Receipts: $5.48 trillion
Federal Deficit: $1,781 billion
Total Federal Debt: $37.1 trillion
Details of Budgeted vs. Actual Outlays for FY 2025
Budget of the United States Government
Definition: Every year in February the President of the United States is required to send to Congress a budget request for the fiscal year that begins the following October.
FY95 Federal Budget also: Spending Budget
Recent and budgeted headline federal budget numbers in the FY95 Budget including overall revenue, deficit, and debt.
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FY95 Federal Budget: Revenue by Type
Recent and budgeted federal revenue in the FY95 Budget
for major federal revenue types.
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Notes
Data Sources: Federal Revenue from Budget of the United States Government.
For a discussion of the sources of the government revenue data used here read How We Got the Data for usgovernmentspending.com.
Budget Updates: The president’s budget is typically published each year in February.
Other budgets:
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Federal Budget in History
in dollars | in percent GDP |
1863 - Gross federal debt exceeded $1 billion for first time. 1865 - Federal spending exceeded $1 billion for first time. 1914 - Federal spending exceeded $1 billion for second time. 1918 - Gross federal debt exceeded $10 billion for first time. 1921 - Bureau of the Budget established by Budget and Accounting Act. 1943 - Gross federal debt exceeded $100 billion for first time. 1970 - Office of Management and Budget created. 1982 - Gross federal debt exceeded $1 trillion for first time. 1987 - Federal spending exceeded $1 trillion for first time. 2009 - Gross federal debt exceeded $10 trillion for first time. | 1792 - Federal debt at 35 percent GDP. 1795 - Federal spending at two percent GDP. 1854 - Federal debt at one percent GDP. 1865 - Federal spending at 13 percent GDP at height of Civil War. 1867 - Federal debt at 32 percent GDP after Civil War. 1907 - Federal spending at 2.2 percent GDP. 1913 - Federal debt at 7.5 percent GDP. 1919 - Federal spending at 24 percent GDP at height of World War I. 1919 - Federal debt at 35 percent GDP after World War I. 1929 - Federal spending at 3.7 percent GDP. 1929 - Federal debt at 16 percent GDP. 1945 - Federal spending at 48 percent GDP at height of World War II. 1946 - Federal debt at 122 percent GDP after World War II. 1951 - Federal spending at 14.4 percent GDP. 1981 - Federal debt at 32 percent GDP. 1982 - Federal spending at 23 percent GDP. 1995 - Federal debt at 66 percent GDP. 2000 - Federal spending at 18 percent GDP. 2009 - Federal spending at 24 percent GDP. 2011 - Federal debt at 97 percent GDP. |
Federal Budget Process
This Budget of the United States Government starts the annual “budget process” that ends when Congress passes and the president signs the annual appropriations bills or continuing resolutions to fund the federal government for another fiscal year.
On this page you can see headline numbers for budgeted revenue (or “receipts”), deficits, and also for major revenue types. Click here for details of receipts by function for the next five years.
Source: Budget of the United States Government.
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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.
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Federal revenue data begins in 1792.
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State and local revenue data for individual states begins in 1957.
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US GDP for 2025 Released
On March 15, 2026 usgovernmentspending.com updated its GDP series with the latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis,
- Click on link.
- Click on "Underlying Detail Tables."
- Click on "view data in XLS or other formats."
- Click on "Section 1 Domestic Product and Income" link
- Save .xlsx file.
GDP, real and nominal, looks like this:
- US GDP source from 1790 to 1928 is calendar GDP from measuringworth.com.
- US GDP source from 1929 to 2025 is calendar GDP from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, under "Supplemental Information and Data"
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