Is there a place where I can see graphs of U.S. National Budget allocations for the last few years?

Question

Is there a place where I can see graphs of U.S. National Budget allocations for the last few years?

Answer 1

You can find tables (not graphs) of the US National Budget allocations since the 1940's in a single PDF:



http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/pdf/hist.pdf



If you have your heart set on looking graphs, you can find several from the website for the US House of Representatives Budget Committee:



http://www.house.gov/budget/chartsgraphs.htm



You can also see various budget, deficit and spending statistics, some graphed over time, on the Public Agenda website:



http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/factfiles.cfm?issue_type=federal_budget



And if you want to really veg-out with numbers, try the Financial Management Service's website (they're a part of the US Treasury Department). They provide reports (in PDF and XLS files) on the receipts, outlays and balances of the US Federal Government. I particularly like the reports on this page:



http://fms.treas.gov/annualreport/index.html



Hope this helps!

Answer 2

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/browse.html



Each year's budget has "Historical Tables" with detail of budget allocations over time. No graphs, but the data is broken down in multiple different ways so you should be able to find what you're looking for.