Fiscally Cooked Fed

U.S. FEDERAL BUDGET / INTERACTIVE MODEL

Taxes, spending and the federal deficit

ESTIMATED DEFICITFY2025 BASELINE
$1.775T
Matches the FY2025 actual deficit
Federal spending$7.010T
Estimated revenue$5.235T
Upset people est.0
Annoyed 0 Angry 0 Furious 0
Revenue covers 74.7% of spendingFY2025 dollars
Angry + Furious: 0 / 15M game-over limit
GAME IN PROGRESS

ADJUST THE TAX CODE

Tax rates

Rates are marginal. Single-filer thresholds are shown; estimates cover all filers.

ADJUST FEDERAL OUTLAYS

Spending

Annual spending in billions of dollars. FY2025 net outlays are the baseline; debt interest stays fixed.

Net interest on the public debtFY2025 net payments · Fixed in this model
$1028B
Net offsets & accounting reconciliationFixed · Includes FDIC recoveries, undistributed offsets and rounding differences

Major categories retain CBO's rounded baselines. Expanded categories use Treasury's FY2025 net outlays, excluding programs already listed. Fixed offsets reconcile the total; they are not available as spending cuts. Spending assumptions and sources.

GAME OVER

You lost the game

BUDGET BALANCED

Congratulations!

You balanced the federal budget in .

You've done in this simulation what Congress hasn't delivered in 25 years. That stretch saw 1,036 House and Senate arrivals, without another annual federal surplus.

Historical context and sources