An overview of major U.S. Federal Government line item spending from last week... Social Security payments hit $720.7 billion for the fiscal year last week. This is $20.3 billion above last year and the

The U.S. Federal Government Deficit has risen to $578 billion last week. That is $114 billion over the same time last year. This is slightly narrower than the previous week’s year-over-year differential

As of early June 2016, the size of the US Federal Government's budget deficit stood at $435 billion, growing by more than $113 billion over the same period in 2015 ($322 billion).