Budget
Where the money actually goes: budget authority by function back to 1947 (with outlays reconstructed to 1791), adjusted for inflation and crosswalked to the Policy Agendas topic system.
Budget authority by major function, 1947–2017 (real 2018 $)
Top four OMB major functions by post-2000 totals, billions of constant 2018 dollars. Data: Budget Authority (Adjusted), US Policy Agendas Project. Chart drawn by this site from the official series (retrieved August 2026).
The series
Official US Policy Agendas Project files — free and public. Codebooks and all 25 series at comparativeagendas.net ↗
Budget Authority, adjusted (1947–2017) Download ↗
Budget Authority–Policy crosswalk (PAP ↔ OMB codes) Download ↗
Budget Outlays (1791–2015) Download ↗
Tax Expenditures (1979–2016) Download ↗
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