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Half of Discretionary spending which does not include Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
by mrep 4y ago
Half of Discretionary spending which does not include Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
- UnpossibleJim 4y agoOh, to be honest I'm not sure how that works. Discretionary spending makes it sound like it's just pocket money. 1.5 trillion dollars doesn't sound like pocket money, and this is the budget that all of the news outlets seem to discuss as "the budget"... what's the other budget that social security, medicare and medicaid come out of so that I can look up that spending and what comes out of that and how much that is? - this seems purposefully complicated, tbh. I've heard this referred to as "the federal budget" for so long (and yes, I'm referring to the US federal budget), I thought they were referring to the complete budget (state budgets aside). That being said, I do understand my naivete =/ EDIT... I meant to say thank you in that post. that chart is awesome, btw
- airstrike 4y ago> Discretionary spending makes it sound like it's just pocket money. It doesn't, really. "Discretionary spending" has a specific meaning, it's not just a casual choice of words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_States_federal_budget#Discretionary_vs._mandatory_spending https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_Sta...