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At the end of FY 2024 (September 30, 2024) the U.S. federal debt totaled about $35.5 trillion on a gross basis reported by GAO auditing Treasury’s schedules, while “debt held by the public” — the econ...
The U.S. spent roughly $70–78 billion a year on foreign aid-sized programs around FY2023–FY2024, which amounted to about 1–1.5% of total federal outlays and about 4% of discretionary spending for inte...
Federal SNAP (food stamp) spending was about $100.3 billion in FY2024, serving roughly 41–42 million people at an average benefit near $187–$190 per person per month, or about $2,250 per person per ye...
In fiscal 2025, the single largest drivers of U.S. debt growth were rising net interest costs and increases in major mandatory benefit programs — specifically Social Security and Medicare — with CBO a...
Since 2000 the national debt has climbed from historically moderate levels to a post‑WWII high relative to GDP, rising steadily in normal years and surging after major crises—notably the and the —so t...
The available reporting in the packet does not show a clear, documented instance—other than ’s recent reported one‑year surge—of a president increasing the federal deficit by roughly in a single first...
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB/OBBBA) raises the unified budget deficit by roughly $3.4 trillion over 2025–2034, driven mainly by about $4.5 t...
A review of recent public budget analyses shows that most U.S. defense outlays are concentrated in personnel pay and the procurement of weapons and equipment, while a large but smaller slice covers op...
CBO and advocacy analyses project persistent trillion‑dollar deficits under current law: CBO’s baseline shows annual deficits remaining above $1 trillion in the near term and rising toward $2+ trillio...