FedGovSpend Explorer

Curious how much federal spending goes toward the military, health care, or education? Want to understand what all those government programs you hear about do? If so, FedGovSpend Explorer is the app for you! Using data from the Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Budget Office, FedGovSpend Explorer shows, in easy-to-follow format, the budget outlays of the United States federal government.
Accompanying, understandable, explanations are available at a touch of the screen.
FedGovSpend Explorer is a product of the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire.
Visit the Carsey Schools website to learn more about federal spending and to find research and publications across a variety of policy areas.

When you first open the app youll see the big, broad, purposes to which federal spending goes.
Lets say you want to dig deeper into a specific area like health spending.
Tap on Health and see health spending broken down by more narrow spending categories.
Tap on one of those categories and get even more detail if you want.
At each layer descriptions are available for what those spending dollars accomplish.
You can see how much we spend on direct health care services, health research, occupational safety, and the rest.
You can explore how much goes specifically to Medicaid, government retiree health coverage, the National Institutes of Health, and the other federal programs that comprise the governments health spending.
You can also view federal outlays by agency and by spending type.
The answers are here in as much or as little detail as you want.

The app will be updated as new budget data become available.,

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