U.S. Federal Spending Statistics
$5.23T tracked across 56 states and territories in FY2025.
A live statistical snapshot of federal spending: national totals, year-over-year trends, and the biggest spenders, computed directly from USASpending.gov's official award data and refreshed with every data update, free to cite or available to download as a CSV dataset.
Key findings
The federal government obligated $5.23T across 56 states and territories in FY2025, according to USASpending.gov.
- Total FY spending
- $5.23T
- States tracked
- 56
- Counties tracked
- 3,232
- Agencies tracked
- 111
Key Findings
- The federal government obligated $5.23T across 56 states and territories in FY2025, according to USASpending.gov.
- Total federal spending grew 9.1% from $4.80T in FY2020 to $5.23T in FY2025.
- California received more federal spending in absolute dollars than any other state in FY2025, at $485.6B.
- The five highest-spending states together account for 31.8% of all tracked federal spending, showing that federal dollars concentrate rather than spread evenly across the country.
- Department of Health and Human Services obligated more than any other federal agency tracked, at $2.01T.
- PlainSpending tracks 3,232 counties and 111 federal agencies, drawn directly from USASpending.gov's transaction-level award data.
- The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has claimed $110.2B in savings across 29,327 contract and grant terminations tracked on this site, a claimed figure that is not independently verified.
Federal Spending Trend
Total federal spending by fiscal year, in $ billions. Source: USASpending.gov.
What to do with this
These are national totals. For state-level detail, browse individual state and county pages.
- See how your state compares in total federal spending. Browse states
- Compare federal agency spending side by side. Agency rankings
- Track claimed DOGE savings by state. DOGE tracker
Download the full dataset (CSV) — all 56 states/territories, public domain, free to reuse.
Source: USASpending.gov Federal award transaction data · 2025
Every figure on PlainSpending is computed directly from USASpending.gov award-transaction data, no number is typed in by an editor. Every figure on this page is a live SQL aggregate over the states/counties/agencies/spending_trends tables -- national and agency totals only; state-level per-capita rankings are intentionally excluded here pending a data-quality review of bulk-claims attribution. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.