PGPF Chart Pack
The PGPF chart pack illustrates that budget-making involves many competing priorities, limited resources, and complex issues.
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The PGPF chart pack illustrates that budget-making involves many competing priorities, limited resources, and complex issues.
The United States lost an estimated $1.8 trillion in revenues through tax expenditures in 2023.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2024/03/6-key-charts-on-tax-breaks
The end of 2023 marks another year that the country has failed to improve its daunting fiscal outlook.
"The rise in the cost of servicing the debt is the significant challenge . . . threatening to crowd out federal spending priorities," writes Dana M. Peterson and Lori Esposito Murray.
https://www.pgpf.org/expert-views/fiscal-commission/the-debt-crisis-is-here
Spending for mandatory programs and net interest is projected to putpace all other non-interest spending.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0174_SS_major_health_climb
Spending on the major healthcare programs, Social Security, and interest will continue to climb rapidly over the long term.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0281_spending_to_climb_rapidly
The United States spent $766 billion on national defense during fiscal year (FY) 2022 according to the Office of Management and Budget, which amounted to 12 percent of federal spending.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/budget-explainer-national-defense
The United States spends more on defense than the next 9 countries combined.
Compared to historical trends and other advanced economies, corporate tax revenues in the United States are low.
"No party, or even individual member, has bragging rights when it comes to advocating for, or making progress on, reducing the deficit and debt," writes Heidi Heitkamp.