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An increasing percentage of the federal budget became devoted to mandatory spending. [3] In 1947, Social Security accounted for just under five percent of the federal budget and less than one-half of one percent of GDP. [8] By 1962, 13 percent of the federal budget and half of all mandatory spending was committed to Social Security. [3]
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Sebelius (2012) that Congress conditioning a state's receipt of the entirety of its federal Medicaid funds on whether said state elected to expand its Medicaid program in accordance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was an unconstitutionally coercive use of Congress's spending power.
As the co-heads of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are promising to slash at least $2 trillion from the federal budget.
The interest expense for fiscal year 2019 is $363 billion, or 7.9% of the total budget. According to estimates from the Office of Management and Budget, interest on government debt is expected to more than double by 2028 and account for a larger percentage of total expenditures. [10]
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In fact, the Tax Policy Center reported that nearly a third of taxpayers itemized deductions in 2017, before the TCJA went into effect, and by 2020, that percentage dropped to 9%.
Many other expenses, such as salaries of Federal judges, are mandatory, but account for a relatively small share of federal spending. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports the costs of mandatory spending programs in a variety of annual and special topic publications. [3]