2010 United States federal budget

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2010 (2010) Budget of the United States federal government

President Barack Obama with OMB Director Peter Orszag.
Submitted	February 26, 2009[1]
Submitted by	Barack Obama
Submitted to	111th Congress
Total revenue	$2.381 trillion (requested) $2.163 trillion (actual)[2] 14.6% of GDP (actual)[3]
Total expenditures	$3.552 trillion (requested) $3.456 trillion (actual)[2] 23.4% of GDP (actual)[3]
Deficit	$1.171 trillion (requested) $1.294 trillion (actual)[4] 8.7% of GDP (actual)[3]
Debt	$13.53 trillion (at fiscal end) 91.4% of GDP[5]
GDP	$14.799 trillion[3]
Website	Office of Management and Budget
‹ 2009 2011›

The United States Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2010, titled A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise,[6] is a spending request by President Barack Obama 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 Congress.

The government was initially funded through two temporary continuing resolutions. Final funding for the government was enacted as an omnibus spending bill, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010, on December 16, 2009.[7]

Total spending

A pie chart representing spending by category for the US budget for 2010^[citation needed]

Further information: Government 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:[8]

• Mandatory spending: $2.173 trillion (+14.9%)
  • $695 billion (+4.9%) – Social Security
  • $571 billion (+58.6%) – Other mandatory spending
  • $453 billion (+6.6%) – Medicare
  • $290 billion (+12.0%) – Medicaid
  • $164 billion (+18.0%) – Interest on National Debt

US receipt and expenditure estimates for fiscal year 2010.

• Discretionary spending: $1.378 trillion (+13.8%)
  • $663.7 billion (+12.7%) – Department of Defense (including Overseas Contingency Operations)
  • $78.7 billion (−1.7%) – Department of Health and Human Services
  • $72.5 billion (+2.8%) – Department of Transportation
  • $52.5 billion (+10.3%) – Department of Veterans Affairs
  • $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%) – Department of Education
  • $42.7 billion (+1.2%) – Department of Homeland Security
  • $26.3 billion (−0.4%) – Department of Energy
  • $26.0 billion (+8.8%) – Department of Agriculture
  • $23.9 billion (−6.3%) – Department of Justice
  • $18.7 billion (+5.1%) – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • $13.8 billion (+48.4%) – Department of Commerce
  • $13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of Labor
  • $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%) – Social Security Administration
  • $7.0 billion (+1.4%) – National Science Foundation
  • $5.1 billion (−3.8%) – Corps of Engineers
  • $5.0 billion (+100%-NA) – National Infrastructure Bank
  • $1.1 billion (+22.2%) – Corporation for National and Community Service
  • $0.7 billion (0.0%) – Small Business Administration
  • $0.6 billion (−14.3%) – General Services Administration
  • $0 billion (−100%-NA) – Troubled Asset Relief Program (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

2010 Actual Receipts by Source

  Individual income tax (43.2%)

  Social Security/other payroll tax (40.4%)

  Corporate income tax (7.3%)

  Deposits of earnings and Federal Reserve System (3.6%)

  Excise tax (3.4%)

  Customs duties (1.1%)

  Estate and gift taxes (0.8%)

  Other miscellaneous receipts (0.8%)

(in billions of dollars):

Source	Requested[9]	Enacted[10]	Actual[11]
Individual income tax	1,061	936	899
Corporate income tax	222	157	191
Social Security and other payroll tax	940	875	865
Excise tax	77	73	67
Estate and gift taxes	20	17	19
Customs duties	23	24	25
Deposits of earnings and Federal Reserve System	22	77	76
Allowance for jobs initiatives	-	−12	-
Other miscellaneous receipts	16	18	21
Total	2,381	2,165	2,163

Deficit

The total deficit for fiscal year 2010 was $1.293 trillion.[11]

References

1. "Remarks by the President on the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget". whitehouse.gov. February 26, 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2015 – via National Archives.
2. "Summary Tables". 2012 Budget of the U.S. Government. United States Office of Management and Budget. February 14, 2011. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
3. "Table 1.2—SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS, OUTLAYS, AND SURPLUSES OR DEFICITS (–) AS PERCENTAGES OF GDP: 1930–2020" (PDF). Government Publishing Office. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
4. "Table 1.1—SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS, OUTLAYS, AND SURPLUSES OR DEFICITS (–): 1789–2020" (PDF). Government Publishing Office. Retrieved October 9, 2015.
5. "Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Historical Tables" (PDF). Office of Management and Budget. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2011. Retrieved 2010-01-09.
7. "Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2010". U.S. Congress. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
8. "FY 2010 Budget, 'A New Era of Responsibility' vid. p.119" (PDF). Government Accountability Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
9. "Summary Tables" (PDF). Fiscal Year 2010 Budget of the U.S. Government. United States Office of Management and Budget. Table S–4: Proposed Budget by Category. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
10. "Summary Tables" (PDF). Fiscal Year 2011 Budget of the U.S. Government. United States Office of Management and Budget. Table S–4: Proposed Budget by Category. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
11. "Summary Tables" (PDF). Fiscal Year 2012 Budget of the U.S. Government. United States Office of Management and Budget. Table S–4: Proposed Budget by Category. Retrieved March 14, 2015.

External links

• Status of Appropriations Legislation for Fiscal Year 2010
• Office of Management and Budget
• Proposed FY 2010 Budget
• Remarks by the President on the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget.
• Gale & Auerbach (Brookings) – Analysis of 2010 Budget
• Budget Proposal and Markups Presidential Proposal and Congressional Documents in convenient form. Senate Version w/ McCain Amendment