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Every month the U.S. Treasury releases data on the federal budget, including the current deficit. Here is the data for March 2019.
https://www.pgpf.org/the-current-federal-budget-deficit/budget-deficit-march-2019
CBO estimates that the national debt would climb from 78 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018 to 87 percent of GDP by 2029 under the president’s policies.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/05/cbo-trump-budget-uses-overly-optimistic-economic-assumptions
Federal trust funds bear little resemblance to their private-sector counterparts.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/budget-explainer-what-are-federal-trust-funds
Mandatory programs and interest costs will take over more of the federal budget, crowding out discretionary programs.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0156_mandatory_discretionary_pies
The amount spent by the federal government on interest is large and growing. Recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections show that net interest will become the third largest “program” in the budget by 2025.
Growth in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid have accounted for most of the increases in government spending since the 1960s.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0012_spending-composition
Mandatory spending and interest costs will climb significantly, while discretionary spending will fall to well below historical averages.
Social Security and major health programs account for three-quarters of programmatic mandatory spending.
Net interest costs on the national debt are projected to rise sharply.
