2009 United States federal budget

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2009 (2009) Budget of the United States federal government

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Submitted by	George W. Bush
Submitted to	110th Congress
Total revenue	$2.7 trillion (estimated) $2.105 trillion (actual)
Total expenditures	$3.107 trillion (estimated) $3.518 trillion (actual)
Deficit	$407 billion (estimated) $1.413 trillion (actual)
Debt	$12.867455 trillion (estimated)
Website	http://www.gpoaccess.gov/USbudget/fy09/hist.html US Government Printing Office

The United States federal budget for fiscal year 2009 began as a spending request submitted by President George W. Bush to the 110th Congress. The final resolution was approved by the House on June 5, 2008. The final spending bills for the budget were not signed into law until March 11, 2009 by President Barack Obama, nearly five and a half months after the fiscal year began.

Total receipts

Estimated receipts for fiscal year 2009 are $2.7 trillion (+7.1%).

• $1.21 trillion – Individual income tax
• $949.4 billion – Social Security and other payroll taxes
• $339.2 billion – Corporate income tax
• $68.9 billion – Excise taxes
• $29.1 billion – Customs duties
• $26.3 billion – Estate and gift taxes
• $47.9 billion – Other

Total spending

Further information: Government spending

A dot plot representing spending by category for the US budget for 2009

The 110th Congress' budget for 2009 totaled $3.1 trillion. Percentages in parentheses indicate percentage change compared to 2008. This budget request is broken down by the following expenditures:

• Mandatory spending: $1.89 trillion (+6.2%)
  • $644 billion – Social Security
  • $408 billion – Medicare
  • $224 billion – Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
  • $360 billion – Unemployment/Welfare/Other mandatory spending
  • $260 billion – Interest on National Debt
• Discretionary spending: $1.21 trillion (+4.9%)
  • $515.4 billion – United States Department of Defense
  • $145.2 billion(2008*) – Global War on Terror
  • $70.4 billion – United States Department of Health and Human Services
  • $68.2 billion – United States Department of Transportation
  • $45.4 billion – United States Department of Education
  • $44.8 billion – United States Department of Veterans Affairs
  • $38.5 billion – United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • $38.3 billion – State and Other International Programs
  • $37.6 billion – United States Department of Homeland Security
  • $25.0 billion – United States Department of Energy
  • $20.8 billion – United States Department of Agriculture
  • $20.3 billion – United States Department of Justice
  • $17.6 billion – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • $12.5 billion – United States Department of the Treasury
  • $10.6 billion – United States Department of the Interior
  • $10.5 billion – United States Department of Labor
  • $8.4 billion – Social Security Administration
  • $7.1 billion – United States Environmental Protection Agency
  • $6.9 billion – National Science Foundation
  • $6.3 billion – Judicial branch (United States federal courts)
  • $4.7 billion – Legislative branch (United States Congress)
  • $4.7 billion – United States Army Corps of Engineers
  • $0.4 billion – Executive Office of the President
  • $0.7 billion – Small Business Administration
  • $7.2 billion – Other agencies
  • $39.0 billion(2008*) – Other Off-budget Discretionary Spending

The financial cost of the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan are not part of the defense budget; they were appropriations.

Deficit

Decreased tax revenue and high spending resulted in an unusually large budget deficit of about $1.4 trillion, well above the $407 billion projected in the FY 2009 budget. A 2009 CBO report indicated that $245 billion, about half of the excess spending, was a result of the 2008 TARP bailouts. Tax cuts resulting from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 accounted for nearly half of the lost revenue.

External links

• The President's Budget of the United States Government, FY 1996 – present
• Budget of the United States Government: Browse Fiscal Year 2009 Summary Tables