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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 for medical bills. You can probably find the exact fraction of overhead for each program somewhere.


> The top 3 chunks of spending

After national defense, you mean.

https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function


According to the link in the parent I replied to, social security and Medicare are larger, by more than 0.7%


Hmmm, so do I trust a media source, or the gov't themselves. Decisions, decisions!


On the site you link, 2020 and 2021 tell a different story, though only on the margin.




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