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From US Treasury Monthly Report for September 2025.
Total Federal Outlays: $7.01 trillion
Total Federal Receipts: $5.23 trillion
Federal Deficit: $1,775 billion
Total Federal Debt: $37.64 trillion
Details of Budgeted vs. Actual Outlays for FY 2025
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.
Recent and budgeted headline federal budget numbers in the FY26 Budget including overall revenue, deficit, and debt.
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Recent and budgeted federal revenue in the FY26 Budget
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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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| 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. | 
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Sources for 2023:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported revenue forward to future years
Sources for 2030:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported revenue forward to future years
 > data sources for other years
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On October 16, 2025, the US Treasury reported in its Monthly Treasury Statement (and xlsx) for September that the federal deficit for FY 2025 ending September 30, 2025, was $1,775 billion. Here are the numbers, including total receipts, total outlays, and deficit compared with the numbers projected in the FY 2025 federal budget published in February 2024:
| Federal Finances FY 2025 Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Budget billions | Outcome billions | ||
| Receipts | $5,485 | $5,235 | |
| Outlays | $7,226 | $7,010 | |
| Deficit | $1,781 | $1,775 | |
We use the spending projections from the FY 2025 budget because the Federal government did not publish spending projections in its Budget for Fiscal Year 2026 as originally published in May 2025.
The Monthly Treasury Statement includes "Table 4: Receipts of the United States Government, September 2025 and Other Periods." This table of receipts by source is used for usgovernmentspending.com to post details of federal receipt actuals for FY 2025. usdgovernmentspending.com obtains the data for outlays and receipts from apis at fiscaldata.treasury.gov.
This MTS report on FY 2025 actuals is a problem for usgovernmentspending.com because this site uses Historical Table 3.2--Outlays by Function and Subfunction from the Budget of the United States as its basic source for federal subfunction outlays. But the Monthly Treasury Statement only includes "Table 9. Summary of Receipts by Source, and Outlays by Function of the U.S. Government, September 2025 and Other Periods". Subfunction amounts don't get reported until the FY27 budget in February 2026. Until then usgovernmentspending.com estimates actual outlays by "subfunction" for FY 2025 by factoring subfunction budgeted amounts for FY25 by the ratio between relevant actual and budgeted "function" amounts where actual outlays by subfunction cannot be gleaned from the Monthly Treasury Statement.
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