The government fiscal year closes at the end of September, but this analysis will look at the calendar year budget.

The charts below are based on information from the Congressional Budget Office, which does nonpartisan analysis for Congress. The totals are based on fiscal year 2023.

The raw numbers involved with federal budgeting are impossible to fully comprehend, which makes charts such as these so important. In fiscal year 2022, the federal deficit was the equivalent of ...

Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency are picking apart federal spending, trying to find areas of waste. Here’s a look at where all the money goes. The charts below are based on ...

President Donald Trump and his advisers have called for dramatically shrinking the size and scope of the federal government, dispatching officials to agency after agency to block funding and slash ...

As the Chart Book shows, federal spending per household has grown faster under the George W. Bush Administration than under any administration since Nixon's and Ford's. (See Chart S-4.) ...