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Mandatory spending of the US Federal Government in 2023. Figure A – Fiscal Year 2019 Mandatory Government Spending Breakdown as a percentage of total expected expenditures. Data from U.S. Office of Management and Budget archives.
Transfer payments to (persons) as a percent of Federal revenue in the United States Transfer payments to (persons + business) in the United States. CBO projects that spending for Social Security, healthcare programs and interest costs will rise relative to GDP between 2017 and 2027, while defense and other discretionary spending will decline relative to GDP.
According to data from the Congressional Budget Office, pay and benefits for federal workers in 2022 cost $271 billion, making up only 4.3% of that year’s budget.
An increasing percentage of the federal budget became devoted to mandatory spending. [3] In 1947, Social Security accounted for just under five percent of the federal budget and less than one-half of one percent of GDP. [8] By 1962, 13 percent of the federal budget and half of all mandatory spending was committed to Social Security. [3]
The United States budget process is the framework used by Congress and the President of the United States to formulate and create the United States federal budget.The process was established by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, [1] the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, [2] and additional budget legislation.
Yet again, the federal government spent far more than it collected in revenue, racking up a budget deficit of $1.8 trillion for fiscal year 2024, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Through fiscal year 2010, the Census Bureau produced the annual Consolidated Federal Funds Report, tracking Federal expenditures both geographically and by agency and program. As of 2011, funding for the Federal Financial Statistics program, of which the CFFR was part, was cut from the Federal budget.