The Public LedgerFiscal year 2025
Where your money goes.
The federal government spent about 10.18 trillion dollars in fiscal year 2025. Here is the whole bill, written as a receipt for every $100 it spent.
$10176BTotal outlays
FY 2025Data year
$180BCorporate tax breaks
USAspendingUpdated monthly
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Receipt - your $100 - FY 2025
Medicare$18.05
Social Security$16.39
Defense$13.92
Interest on the debt$12.29
Medicaid & health$11.26
Income support$7.46
General government$5.03
Veterans$4.06
Education & training$2.18
Transportation$1.94
Environment & natural resources$1.31
Justice & law enforcement$1.13
Community development$1.05
Commerce & housing credit$0.94
Agriculture$0.72
International affairs$0.70
Energy$0.62
Science & space$0.47
Immigration enforcement$0.42
Services for immigrants$0.06
food stamps, tax credits, SSI, unemployment
TOTAL$100.00
Not on the bill: another $1.77 handed back to corporations through tax breaks ($180B).
Receipt lines use largest-remainder rounding and sum to exactly $100.00
The register
Every category in proportion. The gold line is pulled out for scale; the dashed red line is tax-code spending, not a cash outlay.
CategoryShare of budgetDollars9-year