Die US -Bundesregierung gab 6,8 Billionen US -Dollar aus und sammelte im Geschäftsjahr 2024 4,9 Billionen US -Dollar [OC]

Source: USAFacts aggregation of data from Office of Management and Budget, Census Bureau, and Bureau of Economic Analysis

Tools: Illustrator

Note: The federal fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30. Charts are shown to scale for comparison. Numbers may not add due to rounding.

This Sankey chart was pulled from [this report](https://usafacts.org/research-and-initiatives/reports/america-in-facts/) we send to Congress every year.

If this Sankey looks familiar, it’s likely for a couple of reasons:

1. I post an updated version of this every year
2. Those charts always seem to have a noticeable deficit section on the bottom left

Last year (FY 2024) that deficit was $1.8 trillion, resulting from the federal government collected $4.9 trillion and spending $6.8 trillion.

If this Sankey look unfamiliar, it could be because:

1. You didn’t see those other posts
2. We changed up our data viz color pallette recently

Let me know what you think about the viz, federal spending, or any easy way to balance the budget.

I feel like a second chart with social security removed would also be useful as it acts as a mostly independent system

[US tariff revenue expected to be $250-350B in 2026, about half the size of the corporate tax revenue line above. ](https://www.crfb.org/blogs/tariffs-are-generating-meaningful-new-revenue#:~:text=Monthly%20tariff%20revenue%20has%20grown,$3.1%20trillion%20through%20FY%202035)

[The OBBB will also reduce income tax revenue by $570B in 2026 compared to doing nothing. ](https://itep.org/how-will-trump-megabill-change-americans-taxes-in-2026/#:~:text=As%20ITEP%20has%20previously%20found,happen%20if%20Congress%20did%20nothing)

We are so f*cked no matter which party is running things. I voted for Harris but she could not have fixed this. But she wouldn’t have made it so much worse, like has happened.