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Big US County Spending
-5yr -1yr   Fiscal Year 2021 
County County
Spending
 Alameda County, California$5.3 bln chart detail 
 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania$2.2 bln chart detail 
 Anne Arundel County, Maryland$3.0 bln chart detail 
 Arlington County, Virginia$1.7 bln chart detail 
 Baltimore County, Maryland$4.0 bln chart detail 
 Bexar County, Texas$3.0 bln chart detail 
 Broward County, Florida$3.1 bln chart detail 
 Clark County, Nevada$6.4 bln chart detail 
 Contra Costa County, California$3.6 bln chart detail 
 Cook County, Illinois$5.7 bln chart detail 
 Cuyahoga County, Ohio$3.3 bln chart detail 
 Dallas County, Texas$4.3 bln chart detail 
 Erie County, New York$2.1 bln chart detail 
 Fairfax County, Virginia$6.7 bln chart detail 
 Fresno County, California$2.0 bln chart detail 
 Hamilton County, Tennessee$1.8 bln chart detail 
 Harris County, Texas$8.2 bln chart detail 
 Hennepin County, Minnesota$3.0 bln chart detail 
 Henrico County, Virginia$1.6 bln chart detail 
 Hillsborough County, Florida$2.5 bln chart detail 
 Howard County, Maryland$2.1 bln chart detail 
 Kern County, California$2.1 bln chart detail 
 King County, Washington$4.4 bln chart detail 
 Los Angeles County, California$29.9 bln chart detail 
 Loudoun County, Virginia$2.6 bln chart detail 
 Maricopa County, Arizona$2.2 bln chart detail 
 Mecklenburg County, North Carolina$3.7 bln chart detail 
 Miami-dade County, Florida$10.0 bln chart detail 
 Montgomery County, Maryland$8.4 bln chart detail 
 Nassau County, New York$3.5 bln chart detail 
 New Hanover County, North Carolina$1.8 bln chart detail 
 Orange County, Florida$2.7 bln chart detail 
 Orange County, California$5.1 bln chart detail 
 Palm Beach County, Florida$2.7 bln chart detail 
 Prince Georges County, Maryland$4.5 bln chart detail 
 Prince William County, Virginia$2.3 bln chart detail 
 Riverside County, California$6.5 bln chart detail 
 Sacramento County, California$3.4 bln chart detail 
 San Bernardino County, California$4.7 bln chart detail 
 San Diego County, California$5.7 bln chart detail 
 San Joaquin County, California$1.7 bln chart detail 
 San Mateo County, California$1.9 bln chart detail 
 Santa Clara County, California$7.7 bln chart detail 
 Shelby County, Tennessee$2.6 bln chart detail 
 Suffolk County, New York$3.5 bln chart detail 
 Tarrant County, Texas$2.2 bln chart detail 
 Ventura County, California$2.3 bln chart detail 
 Wake County, North Carolina$3.2 bln chart detail 
 Wayne County, Michigan$2.0 bln chart detail 
 Westchester County, New York$4.3 bln chart detail 
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Debt Now:  $34,558,286,201,504.24
Debt 2/2020:$23,409,959,150,243.63

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Federal Budget for FY25 Released

On March 11, 2024, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the Public Budget Database in the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2025

Here is how headline budget estimates for the upcoming FY 2024 fiscal year have changed since the release of the FY 2024 budget a year ago in Winter 2023.

Federal Budget Changes for 2024
$ billionEstimate for 2024
in FY2024 Budget
Estimate for 2024
in FY2025 Budget
Change
Federal Outlays$6,371.8$6,940.9 +$569.1
Federal Receipts$4,802.5$5,081.6+$279.1
Federal Deficit$1,569.4$1,859.4+$290.0

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