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United States · FY2024 Federal Budget

Where Your Tax Dollars Go

In fiscal year 2024 the United States federal government spent $6.75 trillion, about $51,000 per household. Follow every dollar from the taxes that raised it, through the Treasury, and out to the programs that spent it. The height of every bar and ribbon is money, drawn to the same scale.

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Following $100. Type the federal tax you paid to turn every number into your own dollars.

Figures are FY2024 actuals (October 2023 through September 2024) from the Treasury and OMB final budget results and CBO's fiscal year summary, rounded to the nearest billion. Medicare is shown net of premiums enrollees pay in; gross Medicare spending was about $1.05 trillion. Sub-program figures are approximate. Personal amounts treat every dollar you paid as buying an equal slice of every dollar spent, because money in the Treasury is fungible, so your amounts add up to exactly what you paid.

How to read this: dollars flow from the sources on the left into the Treasury and out to the programs on the right. Bar and ribbon heights are proportional to money. The hatched flow is borrowed, roughly 27 cents of every dollar spent. Hover anything for amounts and your share. Click a bar to see what is inside it. Switch to Who decides to see how little of this Congress votes on each year.

Where Your Tax Dollars Go (United States) · Study Spark