Where Your Tax Dollars Went Yesterday

01The Day's Biggest Payments

The largest withdrawals from the Treasury's account on October 22, 2026, out of 84 spending lines. Amounts are what actually left the account that day.

02Where the Money Came From

The largest deposits the same day. Most federal revenue arrives as income and payroll taxes withheld from paychecks, so the withheld-tax line leads almost every day.

Borrowing is left out of both tables: the Treasury also sold new securities and paid off maturing ones that day, which moves far larger sums but is refinancing, not spending or revenue.

03Fiscal 2027 So Far, Compared With Last Year

Spending and receipts from October 1, 2026 through October 22, 2026, by program, against the same point in fiscal 2026 (through October 22, 2025).

Early in a fiscal year the comparison swings with the calendar: a payment that lands on a weekend or holiday moves to a different business day, so a few days' timing can shift a program by billions. Over a full year most of this evens out, although when October 1 falls on a weekend the payments due that day are made at the end of the previous fiscal year, shifting tens of billions of dollars between years.

04The Year's Running Total

Running total since October 1, by day of the fiscal year, from the Daily Treasury Statement. Borrowing and debt repayment are excluded.

05Day by Day

Spending and receipts on each of the last 45 business days. The tall spending days are mostly Social Security and Medicare payment dates and the days interest on the debt is paid; the tall receipt days are the quarterly tax deadlines.

The biggest spending day of fiscal 2027 so far was October 1, 2026, at $122 billion. The biggest spending day of fiscal 2026 was June 1, 2026, at $159 billion.

06Fiscal 2026 in Full

Where the money went over the whole of fiscal 2026 (October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026), by the same cash measure: $8.14 trillion spent and $6.43 trillion taken in.

From the Daily Treasury Statement's fiscal-year totals on September 30, 2026. These are cash payments, so they differ from the official budget figures in the Monthly Treasury Statement; see How to Read This below.

07The Treasury's Checking Account

The closing balance of the Treasury General Account, the government's main account at the Federal Reserve, each business day. It falls when spending runs ahead of taxes and rises when the Treasury borrows more than it needs that day; during debt-ceiling standoffs it is drawn down sharply.

08How to Read This

It is cash, not the budget. The Daily Treasury Statement records money moving in and out of the Treasury's account at the Federal Reserve on a given business day. It is published by 4 p.m. Eastern the next business day, which is why the latest figures here are always for the previous business day. The official deficit comes from the Monthly Treasury Statement, which uses budget accounting; the two differ in timing and in a few items, so the daily figures are the fastest look at federal spending, not the final word.

Borrowing is left out. Each week the Treasury sells hundreds of billions of dollars of new bills, notes and bonds and pays off a similar amount of maturing ones. Including that would swamp everything else, so this page counts only real spending and revenue. Money passing through for federal workers' Thrift Savings Plan accounts and Federal Financing Bank loans is also left out, because it is not budget spending or revenue. Interest paid in cash on Treasury notes and bonds is included as its own line. Interest on Treasury bills is not: bills are sold at a discount and repaid at face value, so that interest is buried in the borrowing figures left out here, and the page understates the total cost of interest.

Payment calendars drive the daily swings. Social Security benefits are paid on the second, third and fourth Wednesdays of the month, with some beneficiaries paid on the 3rd, and Supplemental Security Income is paid on the 1st; interest on Treasury notes and bonds is paid on the 15th and at month end; and large Medicare, military and veterans' payments land at the start of the month, moved to the prior business day when the 1st falls on a weekend. Receipts jump on tax deadlines. A single day is a snapshot, so the fiscal-year totals are the better guide to trends.

Labels are the Treasury's own. Program names come from the statement with abbreviations spelled out. Some payments appear in the daily statement only as "Unclassified" and are not broken out by agency. Amounts are reported in millions of dollars.

09Questions People Ask

10Sources

• U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service: Daily Treasury Statement (Table I, operating cash balance; Table II, deposits and withdrawals of operating cash), via the Fiscal Data API
• Monthly Treasury Statement, for the official budget figures
• Social Security Administration: schedule of benefit payments

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