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between FY26 budget and FY27 budget
| Comparison of: Total Direct Revenue | ||||
| in $ billion nom | ||||
| Year | FY26 Budget | FY27 Budget | Difference | |
| 2026 | $5,872.74 | $5,872.74 | 0.00 | |
| 2027 | $6,186.24 | $6,186.24 | 0.00 | |
| 2028 | $6,509.62 | $6,509.62 | 0.00 | |
| 2029 | $6,829.92 | $6,829.92 | 0.00 | |
| 2030 | $0.00 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
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.
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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.
State and local revenue data begins in 1820.
State and local revenue data for individual states begins in 1957.
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State and Local Finances for 2024 -- First Look
On July 2, 2026 we updated the state and local spending and revenue for FY 2024 using the new Census Bureau State and Local Government Finances "first look"summaries for FY 2024 released in April 2026. (See also Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances). The release includes state and local spending for the United States as a whole. It does not include the 50 individual states and the District of Columbia.
State and local spending and revenue for FY2024 are now actual historical spending as reported by the Census Bureau.
We have updated the "guesstimated" state and local finances for FY2025-31 as indicated in our "guesstimate" blog entries.
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