Everything in the red is Medicare, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, interest. Well, now interest is much higher. Other mandatory programs, We only get to vote on about 25, 26% of the budget. And if you split out defense out of that $7 trillion spending of your U.S. government, we get to vote on about 965 billion. So less than 17 is non defense discretionary. (11:54–11:59)
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Asserts that Congress votes on only 25-26% of the U.S. budget.
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