National Defense
$1.2 trillion of gross federal outlays were reported under the National Defense heading in fiscal year 2026, the 4 largest of 18 budget functions. Department of Defense accounts for 95.8% of it.
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Identifiers
- Budget function
- National Defense
The record
| Outlays · FY2026Gross outlays, not net. At this grain they are routinely negative for some agencies, which is why nothing here calls them money spent. | $1,174,220,949,606USD, gross |
|---|---|
| Obligations · FY2026 | $1,337,947,725,765USD |
| Rank among budget functions · FY2026 | 4 of 18by outlays |
| Share of all budget functions · FY2026 | 13.4%percent of outlays under every heading |
| Agencies reporting under it · FY20262 of them report this function and are not in the award table, so they appear below by their top-tier code with no name. | 10agencies |
Agencies reporting under this heading
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| Rank | Agency | Outlays |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Department of Defense | $1,124,706,818,529 |
| 2 | Department of Energy | $32,765,538,168 |
| 3 | Department of Justice | $12,031,773,356 |
| 4 | Department of Labor | $2,934,916,342 |
| 5 | Department of Transportation | $1,049,812,119 |
| 6 | Department of Homeland Security | $368,532,477 |
| 7 | 096 | $293,684,566 |
| 8 | Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board | $33,621,674 |
| 9 | Selective Service System | $25,741,688 |
| 10 | 535 | $10,510,684 |
An agency with a top-tier code and no name reports this function to the account data and does not appear in the award table the names come from. Its figure is the publisher’s; the missing name is ours.
What this data cannot show
- A budget function is reported per agency and never nationally. The figure at the top of this page is a sum over the rows in the table below, not a total the publisher published.
- Gross outlays are not net outlays and neither is money spent in the sense a reader means. An agency’s figure can be negative when it recovers more than it pays out under a heading in the period.
- The fiscal year is not over. These are the figures reported so far.
- Budget functions describe purpose, not programme. Money under one heading can pay for work a reader would file under several, and one programme can appear under more than one heading in different agencies.
Related
Sources
- USAspending API v2 — dimension aggregations — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved September 19, 2026
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