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FFY 2002

CBO categories for this fiscal year: revenue sources, discretionary and mandatory outlays, and interest.

Billions of dollars

CBO historical categories for this fiscal year, in billions of dollars. This is the next layer under the annual totals, not program-by-program detail. All fiscal years.

Revenues

$1.9T

Outlays

$2.0T

Deficit / surplus

−$157.8B

Debt held by the public

$3.5T

Revenue sources

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Revenue sources
Rank
1	Individual income taxes	$858.3B
2	Payroll taxes	$700.8B
3	Corporate income taxes	$148.0B
4	Excise taxes	$67.0B
5	Miscellaneous receipts	$33.9B
6	Estate and gift taxes	$26.5B
7	Customs duties	$18.6B

Discretionary outlays

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Discretionary outlays
Rank
1	NondefenseDiscretionary nondefense outlays	$385.0B
2	DefenseDiscretionary defense outlays	$349.0B

Mandatory outlays

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Mandatory outlays
Rank
1	Social Security	$452.1B
2	Other major health care	$378.9B
3	Medicare	$253.7B
4	Income security	$180.3B
5	Medicaid	$147.5B
6	Federal retirement	$90.7B
7	Other mandatory	$44.2B
8	Veterans’ programs	$27.9B
9	Offsetting receiptsOften negative; reduces reported mandatory totals	−$90.4B

Interest and offsets

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Interest and offsets
Rank
1	Net interest	$170.9B
2	Offsetting receipts (outlays)Budget accounting offsets in the outlay presentation	−$90.4B