Eradicating poverty is orders of magnitude harder than landing a colony on Mars. Hypothetically, if the US were to put 20% of their budget into (truly) getting

Eradicating poverty is orders of magnitude harder than landing a colony on Mars. Hypothetically, if the US were to put 20% of their budget into (truly) getting people on Mars, they'll do it. If they put 20% of their budget into eradicating poverty? Right now the US government puts between 10% to 30% of their budget into Medicare and Medicaid. Is poverty eradicated?