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The top 3 chunks of spending are social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The majority of that spending is payments to individuals or on behalf of individuals f
by creato 4y ago
The top 3 chunks of spending are social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The majority of that spending is payments to individuals or on behalf of individuals for medical bills. You can probably find the exact fraction of overhead for each program somewhere.
- rootusrootus 4y ago> The top 3 chunks of spending After national defense, you mean. https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function
- creato 4y agoAccording to the link in the parent I replied to, social security and Medicare are larger, by more than 0.7%
- rootusrootus 4y agoHmmm, so do I trust a media source, or the gov't themselves. Decisions, decisions!
- hcurtiss 4y agoOn the site you link, 2020 and 2021 tell a different story, though only on the margin.