Honest projection · estimated
US Federal Spending Today (est.)
A projection of how much the US federal government has spent since midnight UTC, ticking at its most recent complete-year total — $7.010 trillion of outlays in fiscal year 2025 — spread evenly across the year. Real federal spending is lumpy (big benefit payments go out on set dates), so this is the yearly pace made visible, not a live ledger. It runs ahead of the tax-revenue counter beside it, and the gap between the two is the deficit being borrowed every second. The economies this sits inside are one tap away in Atlas.
About this number
This is an honest projection, not a census. It is computed by carrying a published figure forward at a known rate over real elapsed time — ≈ $222,000/sec (≈$19bn/day), from US Treasury — total federal outlays $7.010 trillion in fiscal year 2025, spread evenly across the year. The source is US Treasury (Fiscal Service) FY2025. The true value is known only to within a margin; this is the running estimate, and we label it as one.