The United States Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2010, titled A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise, is a spending request by

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to fund government operations for October 2009–September 2010. Figures shown in the spending request do not reflect the actual appropriations for Fiscal Year 2010, which must be authorized by

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. The government was initially funded through two temporary continuing resolutions. Final funding for the government was enacted as an

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, the

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, on December 16, 2009.

Total spending

Incoming President Barack Obama's budget request for FY 2010 totaled $3.55 trillion and was passed by Congress on April 29, 2009. Percentages in parentheses indicate percentage changes compared to FY 2009. A breakdown of Obama's budget request includes the following expenditures: *Mandatory spending: $2.173 trillion (+14.9%) **$695 billion (+4.9%) –

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**$571 billion (+58.6%) – Other mandatory spending **$453 billion (+6.6%) – Medicare **$290 billion (+12.0%) –

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**$164 billion (+18.0%) – Interest on National Debt 2010 Receipts & Expenditures Estimates

*Discretionary spending: $1.378 trillion (+13.8%) **$663.7 billion (+12.7%) – Department of Defense (including Overseas Contingency Operations) **$78.7 billion (−1.7%) –

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**$72.5 billion (+2.8%) – Department of Transportation **$52.5 billion (+10.3%) –

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 an ...

**$51.7 billion (+40.9%) – Department of State and Other International Programs **$47.5 billion (+18.5%) – Department of Housing and Urban Development **$46.7 billion (+12.8%) –

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**$42.7 billion (+1.2%) –

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**$26.3 billion (−0.4%) –

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**$26.0 billion (+8.8%) – Department of Agriculture **$23.9 billion (−6.3%) –

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**$18.7 billion (+5.1%) – National Aeronautics and Space Administration **$13.8 billion (+48.4%) – Department of Commerce **$13.3 billion (+4.7%) –

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**$13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of the Treasury **$12.0 billion (+6.2%) – Department of the Interior **$10.5 billion (+34.6%) – Environmental Protection Agency **$9.7 billion (+10.2%) –

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**$7.0 billion (+1.4%) –

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 ...

**$5.1 billion (−3.8%) – Corps of Engineers **$5.0 billion (+100%-NA) – National Infrastructure Bank **$1.1 billion (+22.2%) –

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**$0.7 billion (0.0%) –

Small Business Administration The United States Small Business Administration (SBA) is an independent agency of the United States government that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses. The mission of the Small Business Administration is "to maintain and stre ...

**$0.6 billion (−14.3%) –

General Services Administration The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. GSA supplies products and communications for U.S. gover ...

**$0 billion (−100%-NA) –

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(TARP) **$0 billion (−100%-NA) – Financial stabilization efforts **$11 billion (+275%-NA) – Potential disaster costs **$19.8 billion (+3.7%) – Other Agencies **$105 billion – Other

Total revenue

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Deficit

The total deficit for fiscal year 2010 was $1.293 trillion.

References

External links

Status of Appropriations Legislation for Fiscal Year 2010Office of Management and BudgetProposed FY 2010 Budget

Remarks by the President on the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget

Gale & Auerbach (Brookings) – Analysis of 2010 Budget
Presidential Proposal and Congressional Documents in convenient form

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