It's not different federal, but from anybody's budget, except for borrowing. Distinguish mandatory from discretionary. Okay, this is a good example of total federal spending, in this case FY 2025. And you will see here, Mandatory spending is about 62% of total federal spending of 7.4 trillion [in FY 2025]. And mandatory spending is made up of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. And these will come in unless we change the law, which we just did with Medicaid. And I'll talk about that. (13:58–14:06)
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