The US Budget, arguably the most important document for understanding what our government does, is completely inaccessible.
This visualization fixes that. Click any year to see the budget for that year.
Click once on any cell to see a graph of how
that budget item has changed over time, and double click to get more details about any specific item.
- 1976
- 1977
- 1978
- 1979
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- 1989
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- 1994
- 1995
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998
- 1999
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- Plain Dollars
- Inflation Adjusted
Single click for a chart, double click for more details.
Sources
The source for this data is the historical budget table from the 2014 White House budget proposal.
The inflation data comes from the Treasury Department, and the per-capita data is from the US Census.
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