PlainSpending

Editorial Findings

Download the federal spending by state (CSV) , open extract wired into this page's Dataset JSON-LD.

Each analysis derives its figures from the live PlainSpending database and explains its source scope and limitations. Figures come from USASpending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), covering federal spending across all 50 states, DC, and territories; see our methodology.

What can you learn from PlainSpending research?

What this research covers

PlainSpending research ranks federal obligations across 56 states and 3,232 counties (111 agencies in FY2025), answering one spending or trend question per finding from the live USASpending.gov mirror.

56
states & territories
3,232
counties with obligations
111
agencies in current FY
2
published spending findings

Findings below answer one ranking or multi-year trend question each from USASpending.gov place-of-performance totals; they are descriptive obligation statistics, not budget advice.

How has federal spending changed by state?

A reproducible comparison of the two latest fiscal-year releases, showing the largest dollar increases and decreases without assigning a cause.

California Federal Spending Trends, FY2021-FY2025

A multi-year, source-linked analysis of California's federal spending trend and peer context.

Rankings

Leaderboards update automatically as new data is published.

Counties

All US counties with available data.

States

State-level summaries and rankings.

Federal Agencies

Federal agencies by outlay totals.