PlainSpending

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 from the federal spending data download in CSV or JSON.

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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.

$4,400B$4,600B$4,800B$5,000B$5,200B$5,400B FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025 $5,235B
Source: USASpending.gov, FY2020–FY2025. Values in $ billions.

What to do with this

These are national totals. For state-level detail, browse individual state and county pages.

Browse the full dataset (CSV + JSON) — 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.