Americans feel they’re suffering an affordability crisis, despite the federal government spending more on them than ever before. Washington is spending 98 times more per U.S. resident than it was during the World War I era, just over a century ago. No, that is not all due to inflation; that is the real growth in federal spending per capita since 1916, adjusted to today’s dollars.

According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, the federal government spent a record $7.035 trillion in fiscal year 2025, or $20,474.19 per person living in the country.

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