State Finances

As Democrats and Republicans battle over the budget, The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to see which states take more from D.C. than they send back—and which states get shortchanged.

#1, Mississippi

#2, West Virginia

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#3, New Mexico

#4, District of Columbia

Charles Dharapak

#5, Hawaii

Bayne Stanley

#6, Alaska

SEANNA O'SULLIVAN

#7, Alabama

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#8, South Carolina

#9, Montana

GEORGE LANE

#10, Maine

#11, Kentucky

John Flavell

#12, North Dakota

Sterling Breuer

#13, Virginia

WAYNE SCARBERRY

#14, South Dakota

DOUG DREYER

#15, Vermont

#16, Arizona

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#17, Maryland

Pablo Martinez Monsivais

#18, Idaho

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#19, Louisiana

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#20, Iowa

21. Wyoming

#22, Missouri

Kelley McCall

#23, Michigan

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#24, Kansas

Charlie Riedel

#25, Indiana

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#26, Tennessee

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#27, Florida

#28, Oregon

#29, Oklahoma

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#30, Utah

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#31, Georgia

#32, Pennsylvania

#33, New Hampshire

#34, Wisconsin

#35, North Carolina

Matej Krajcovic

#36, Nevada

CATHLEEN ALLISON

#37, Washington

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#38, California

#39, Massachusetts

#40, Ohio

#41, Texas

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#42, Arkansas

Henryk Sadura

#43, Colorado

#44, Rhode Island

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#45, Nebraska

Bill Wolf

#46, New York

Daniel Barry

#47, Illinois

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#48, Connecticut

#49, New Jersey

#50, Minnesota

Erin Westover

#51, Delaware