Department of Transportation
In its own words: Serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future.
The Treasury’s books put its net outlays at $127,582,781,458. Its own accounts, as it reported them to USAspending, show $144,627,702,919 in gross outlays: the difference is what its programs took back in and what it paid to other federal accounts, lines the Treasury’s breakdown below lists and subtracts.
Over time
Net outlays in each fiscal year, from the Treasury's September statements.
The figures
| Fiscal year | Net outlays |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $127,582,781,458 |
| 2024 | $117,389,456,148 |
| 2023 | $109,786,082,826 |
| 2022 | $113,729,444,587 |
| 2021 | $104,936,009,879 |
| 2020 | $100,342,064,115 |
| 2019 | $80,715,130,637 |
| 2018 | $78,494,450,988 |
| 2017 | $79,439,571,380 |
| 2016 | $78,419,079,874 |
| 2015 | $75,453,218,390 |
Inside the agency, as the Treasury lists it
Net outlays by bureau and account, the same books as the total above. Open a line to see what is inside it. Lines in italics are subtracted: money the public paid back, and payments between federal accounts.
- Office of the Secretary$2.74B2.1%
Federal Aviation Administration$24.8B19.4%
- Operations$1.22B4.9%
Airport and Airway Trust Fund$19.7B79.3%
- Grants-In-Aid for Airports$3.74B19.0%
- Facilities and Equipment$3.20B16.3%
- Research, Engineering, and Development$225M1.1%
- Trust Fund Share of FAA Operations$12.5B63.6%
- Other$3.91B15.7%
Federal Highway Administration$65.0B51.0%
Highway Trust Fund$56.0B86.2%
- Federal-Aid Highways$56.0B100.0%
- Other$13M<0.1%
- Other Programs$8.99B13.8%
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration$1.01B0.8%
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration$1.49B1.2%
Federal Railroad Administration$6.49B5.1%
- Capital and Debt Service Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation$0
- Other$6.49B100.0%
Federal Transit Administration$25.3B19.9%
- Formula Grants$1.3M<0.1%
- Capital Investment Grants$2.60B10.3%
- Transit Formula Grants$16.2B64.0%
- Other$6.51B25.7%
- Maritime Administration$993M0.8%
- Other$545M0.4%
- Proprietary Receipts from the PublicMoney the public paid back to these accounts, subtracted from the total-$675M
Intrabudgetary TransactionsPayments between federal accounts, subtracted so nothing is counted twice-$8.5M
- Other-$8.5M
- Offsetting Governmental ReceiptsReceipts of a governmental kind credited to these accounts, subtracted-$183M
Its federal accounts
Each federal account is one pot of money Congress appropriates, and these are the 107 this agency paid out of, by gross outlays. Each opens on USAspending.gov, which lists its programs and awards.
What kind of payment
Gross outlays by object class, grouped: what each dollar bought. $13.0B moved from its accounts to other federal accounts is left out; it is counted where it is finally paid.
Every object class
What its money pays for
Its gross outlays by the budget function and subfunction of each account. Open a function to see every agency that spends on it.
Its awards: where they went and who got them
$134.9B in contracts, grants, loans and direct payments committed in the year. Payments to individuals are published only as totals, so they have a place but no recipient.
By state
Abroad
Its largest recipients
Its largest programs
Net outlays and the bureau breakdown are the Monthly Treasury Statement’s for September 2025, table 5. Everything else is what Department of Transportation reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal year 2025: its accounts, object classes and functions as gross outlays and obligations, and its contracts, grants, loans and direct payments as award obligations, by the place of performance. Awards are counted under the agency that made them.