Net interest (FY2027 to date)

How it's calculated. 14.22% of federal spending (its share over trailing 12 months of MTS (2025-10 to 2026-09)), applied to the daily re-based FY2027 total. FY2026 final: $1,051.8B.

Source. Treasury MTS Table 9 (share) × daily total, official as of Oct 23, 2026.

* Per person (projected population) divides by the US population projected to now: the official Census Vintage 2025 estimate for July 1, 2025 (341,784,857), projected forward at Census's stated growth rate (343,051,422 at build time). Per tax return filed divides by 162,754,810 individual income tax returns filed in FY2025 (IRS Data Book, Table 1-2); a joint return counts once and returns with zero tax liability are included.