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Government · FY2024, Treasury MTS
The whole federal dollar
$6.75 trillion went out. Here is where each cent of it went, largest first.
If you paid $10,000 in federal tax
$2,200 went to Social Security, $1,400 to health programmes, $1,300 to Medicare, $1,300 to defence, and $1,300 to interest on money already borrowed.
A further $1,830 of that $10,000 was itself borrowed — the government spent it before collecting it.
Worth noticing
Interest now costs the same as defence. Ten years ago it cost less than half.
Source: U.S. Treasury, Monthly Treasury Statement, fiscal year 2024 outlays. Cents are rounded to the nearest half-cent; the bar lengths are proportional to the largest line.
Planning preview
Verified spending data is being prepared
This feature will explain how public funds are allocated using verified source records. Outpost will not display spending estimates, percentages, or charts until an official dataset and reviewable methodology are connected.
Future data contract
What each verified snapshot must include
The public page will be activated only after the backend can provide a complete, source-linked fiscal snapshot.
- Fiscal year
- Jurisdiction
- Spending category
- Verified dollar amount
- Percentage of total spending
- Official source label
- Official source URL
- Source-document date
- Last verification date
- Methodology notes
Public-information safeguards
How Outpost will keep the feature honest
- Current-law public-spending information will remain separate from proposed-policy assumptions.
- Every displayed amount will require an official source and a verification date.
- Estimated values will be labeled clearly and will never be presented as verified spending.
- The feature will provide educational context only and will not provide individualized tax advice.
Educational notice
This future feature will provide civic-education material about public spending. It will not provide individualized tax advice, predict a specific household tax liability, or present proposed policies as current law.
Where your tax dollar goes
Foreign assistance, by country
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