U.S. Federal Outlays

Monthly U.S. federal outlays reported by the Treasury in the Monthly Treasury Statement.
Latest observation
$584.775B
September 2026
Latest
$584.775B
September 2026
Previous observation
$526.812B
August 2026
Change from previous
+$57.963B
Latest minus previous observation
History high
$1,104.903B
History low
$45.930B
History mean
$239.211B

Historical chart

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September 2026$584.775BUse ← and → to inspect observations; Home and End jump to the range boundaries.
U.S. Department of the Treasury. Observation periods are preserved as published.
10Y includes all 121 retained observations from September 2016 through September 2026. Full retained history includes 552 retained observations from October 1980 through September 2026. Checked against U.S. Department of the Treasury through September 2026. Latest published observation is within the expected freshness window (29 calendar days old). This page does not imply intraday or real-time data.

Observation history

Table shows the most recent 100 observations.
Federal Outlays observations
PeriodValue
September 2026$584.775B
August 2026$526.812B
July 2026$766.296B
June 2026$616.067B
May 2026$628.161B
April 2026$622.319B
March 2026$548.963B
February 2026$620.623B
January 2026$654.667B
December 2025$629.136B
November 2025$509.279B
October 2025$688.704B
September 2025$345.725B
August 2025$689.107B
July 2025$629.635B
June 2025$499.435B
May 2025$686.881B
April 2025$591.769B
March 2025$528.174B
February 2025$603.441B
January 2025$641.935B
December 2024$541.146B
November 2024$668.517B
October 2024$584.221B
September 2024$446.701B
August 2024$686.620B
July 2024$574.119B
June 2024$537.220B
May 2024$670.778B
April 2024$566.669B
March 2024$568.365B
February 2024$567.401B
January 2024$499.250B
December 2023$558.665B
November 2023$588.842B
October 2023$469.997B
September 2023$638.190B
August 2023$193.875B
July 2023$496.943B
June 2023$646.085B
May 2023$547.835B
April 2023$462.340B
March 2023$691.675B
February 2023$524.548B
January 2023$486.072B
December 2022$539.943B
November 2022$500.646B
October 2022$406.374B
September 2022$917.489B
August 2022$523.318B
July 2022$480.383B
June 2022$549.598B
May 2022$455.211B
April 2022$555.429B
March 2022$507.799B
February 2022$506.447B
January 2022$346.375B
December 2021$508.026B
November 2021$472.543B
October 2021$448.983B
September 2021$524.463B
August 2021$439.013B
July 2021$564.050B
June 2021$623.359B
May 2021$595.698B
April 2021$664.766B
March 2021$927.217B
February 2021$559.236B
January 2021$547.483B
December 2020$489.682B
November 2020$364.819B
October 2020$521.769B
September 2020$497.780B
August 2020$423.233B
July 2020$626.487B
June 2020$1,104.903B
May 2020$572.614B
April 2020$979.885B
March 2020$355.754B
February 2020$423.229B
January 2020$404.883B
December 2019$349.091B
November 2019$434.024B
October 2019$379.988B
September 2019$291.260B
August 2019$428.309B
July 2019$371.044B
June 2019$342.430B
May 2019$439.833B
April 2019$375.240B
March 2019$375.756B
February 2019$401.243B
January 2019$331.299B
December 2018$326.123B
November 2018$410.864B
October 2018$353.183B
September 2018$224.443B
August 2018$433.263B
July 2018$302.131B
June 2018$391.136B

Source & methodology

Grizzly Bulls preserves Treasury’s published monthly Outlays value in exact integer millions and converts that source amount to billions of U.S. dollars for display. The series is not re-aggregated, interpolated, or estimated.

Dataset: Monthly Treasury Statement: Receipts, Outlays, and Deficit/Surplus.

Unit: Billions of U.S. dollars. Frequency: Monthly.

Expected refresh: Monthly after the U.S. Treasury publishes the Monthly Treasury Statement. History target: 1980 onward.

Revision behavior: Routine source revision policy not documented. Treasury does not document a routine revision schedule for this Monthly Treasury Statement table. Grizzly Bulls refreshes retained history from the current official FiscalData dataset and publishes the latest values Treasury provides for each retained month. Read revision methodology.

Vintage: Latest-known retained history. This page does not preserve prior publication vintages.

Source accessed: Oct 21, 2026.

View the source series at U.S. Department of the Treasury · Read the source methodology

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