| Generally agree with the sentiment, just they're probably worried about the 2026 proposal, that talked about $18.8 billion for FY 2026. Both the Senate the House did not agree with the White House proposal, yet the threat that $6 billion was going to vanish causes a lot of issues. Now they're in limbo with shutdown. And FY 2025 was a full-year CR. So not a lot of belief in a functioning House / Senate. Difficult to plan the usual when the White House is proposing -$6B and the House / Senate are not functioning. And they all got emails paraphrased as "get out while you can." Minor nitpick, the budget amount really seems to depend where you look. Per USASpending.gov, supposedly "the official open data source of federal spending information", FY 2025 Obligated is $9.4 trillion as of August 30th. FY 2024 was $9.7 trillion. FY 2019 was when it was $6.6B. [1] However, your numbers are closer to the numbers from the Treasury that say $7 trillion was spent so far this year. [2] Treasury actually mentions USASpending by name and notes "Values displayed are outlays, which is money that is actually paid out by the government. Other sources, such as USAspending, may display spending as obligations, which is money that is promised to be paid, but may not yet be delivered." Differences between them: Social Security 23% 16.30%
Medicare 14% 18.30%
Health 14% 11.60%
Net Interest 14% 12.30%
National Defense 13% 15.90%
Income Security 10% 6.70%
Veterans Benefits and Services 5% 4%
Transportation 2% 1.70%
Natural Resources and Environment 1% 1.20%
Administration of Justice 1% 1%
General Government 4.2%
Education, Employment, Training 1.9%
and Social Services
Other 2% 4.90%
SUM 99% 100.00%
Social Security looks like way larger percent paid than percent promised. Total dollars on Treasury is $100 billion higher than USAspending. Medicare looks like a lot has been promised, yet to be delivered. National Defense looks quite a bit more promised than delivered. Income Security is also more paid than promised (~another $100 billion) General Government and EETSS was not included in Treasury (?). They're at 99%, no room for another 6%.[1] https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function [2] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder... |