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What is the spending data; where is it from?

Federal spending data begins in 1792.
State and local spending data begins in 1902.
Spending data is from official government sources.
Federal data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau.
Gross Domestic Product data comes from measuringworth.com.
Spending data sources here.

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Data Sources for 1998_2018:

Sources for 1998:

GDP: Measuring Worth - US GDP
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2 and 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances

Sources for 2018:

GDP: Fed. Budget: Hist. Table 10.1
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2 and 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
“Guesstimated” by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years

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Federal Budget FY 14 Released

On April 10, 2013, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the historical tables in the FY14 federal budget. Actual revenue for FY 2012 and estimated revenue through FY 2018 come from Tables 2.1, 2.4, and 2.5. Actual spending for FY 2012 and estimated spending at the subfunction level through FY 2018 comes from Table 3.2. Budget Authority estimates come from Table 5.1, federal debt estimates come from Table 7.1 and GDP estimates come from Table 10.1.

You can see you each line item changes from budget to budget here. You can compare budget estimates with actuals here.

Account level spending estimates through FY 2018 come from the Outlays table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on March 10, 2013.

Account level budget authority estimates through FY 2018 come from the Budget Authority table in the Public Budget Database and were updated on usgovernmentspending.com on March 10, 2013.