The United States federal budget for fiscal year 2009 began as a spending request submitted by President

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to the

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. The final resolution written and submitted by the 110th Congress to be forwarded to the President was approved by the House on June 5, 2008. The government was initially funded through three temporary

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s. Final funding for the

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, and

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was enacted on September 30, 2008 as part of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009, while the remaining departments and agencies were funded as part of an

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, the

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, on March 10, 2009.

Total receipts

''(in billions of dollars)''

Total spending

The 110th Congress' budget for 2009 totaled $3.1 trillion. Percentages in parentheses indicate percentage change compared to 2008. This budget request is broken down by the following expenditures: *Mandatory spending: $1.89 trillion (+6.2%) **$644 billion –

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**$408 billion – Medicare **$224 billion –

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and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) **$360 billion – Unemployment/Welfare/Other mandatory spending **$260 billion – Interest on National Debt *Discretionary spending: $1.21 trillion (+8.6%) **$515.4 billion –

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**$145.2 billion (2008*) – Global War on Terror **$70.4 billion –

United States Department of Health and Human Services The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is ...

**$68.2 billion –

United States Department of Transportation The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is headed by the secretary of transportation, who reports directly to the President of the United States a ...

**$45.4 billion –

United States Department of Education The United States Department of Education is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Departmen ...

**$44.8 billion –

United States Department of Veterans Affairs The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a Cabinet-level executive branch department of the federal government charged with providing life-long healthcare services to eligible military veterans at the 170 VA medical centers a ...

**$38.5 billion –

United States Department of Housing and Urban Development The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It administers federal housing and urban development laws. It is headed by the Secretary of Housing and Ur ...

**$38.3 billion – State and Other International Programs **$37.6 billion –

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**$25.0 billion –

United States Department of Energy The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and manages the research and development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the United Stat ...

**$20.8 billion –

United States Department of Agriculture The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, rural economic development, and food. It aims to meet the needs of com ...

**$20.3 billion –

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**$17.6 billion – National Aeronautics and Space Administration **$12.5 billion –

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**$10.6 billion –

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**$10.5 billion –

United States Department of Labor The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is responsible for the administration of federal laws governing occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemploy ...

**$8.4 billion –

Social Security Administration The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits. To qualify ...

**$7.1 billion –

United States Environmental Protection Agency The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it ...

**$6.9 billion –

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

**$6.3 billion –

Judicial branch The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law ...

(United States federal courts) **$4.7 billion –

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(United States Congress) **$4.7 billion –

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**$0.4 billion –

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**$0.7 billion –

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**$7.2 billion – Other agencies **$39.0 billion (2008*) – Other Off-budget Discretionary Spending The

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and the

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are not part of the defense budget; they were appropriations.

Deficit

Decreased tax revenue and high spending resulted in an unusually large budget deficit of about $1.4 trillion, well above the $407 billion projected in the FY 2009 budget. A 2009 CBO report indicated that $245 billion, about half of the excess spending, was a result of the 2008 TARP bailouts. Spending increases and tax credits resulting from the

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accounted for another $200 billion of the budget deficit.

References

External links

Status of Appropriations Legislation for Fiscal Year 2009''Budget of the United States Government: Browse Fiscal Year 2009'' Summary Tables
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