Hate to ruin your narrative here, but the [Republican controlled] House controls the government coin purse.
The first part’s not true. I love to tear down narratives. So I’m going to dissect the last paragraph with prejudice.
Blame Republicans if you want
I do.
but save some for the president and congressional Democrats. Biden rebranded as a deficit hawk after the FY2022 budget process,
Makes sense given our massive deficit.
the FY2023 spending bill was passed under the Democratic trifecta, and the FY2024 appropriations bills were enacted with overwhelming Democratic support at Biden’s urging.
We’re also funding two wars abroad, so that also makes sense. Also, those were the appropriations bills that needed to pass to prevent the government from shutting down. Because those are used every frigging year to hold the country for ransom, usually by Republicans. So of course compromises would be required to pass the least-worst of those lest we get absolutely nothing at all and the whole government shuts down (again).
We’ve got a bipartisan problem here.
BoTh SidES!!!1!!
This isn’t both sides, this is straight anti-biden propaganda.
Oh, yeah. 100%.
My “Both sides” rebuttal was simply to the last sentence in the
article’sblog post’s summary paragraph.
but but but gEnOsiDe jOe!!/1
Social spending was also up in 21 and 22 because of Covid.
Wow, military spending went up when a major world power invaded a sovereign nation? I’m sure this is all Biden’s fault.
The US spent 629 billion on Medicare alone in 2024.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/
Don’t fall for falsified data.
This is discretionary spending
Edit: I have no idea why this is getting downvotes.
Ah. That should probably be in the headline then, instead of just “spending” and “funding”.
Regardless, the figures are still inaccurate.
The $1.6 trillion in discretionary spending for FY24 is split between $842 billion for defense programs and $758 billion for nondefense activities, reflecting respective 3% and 7% boosts from FY23 enacted levels.
https://about.bgov.com/brief/federal-appropriations-for-fy24/
Edit: I have no idea why this is getting downvotes.
Because you made it clear in this comment that the headline is biased by using incomplete terms and trying to hide what the actual spending was.
Remember that nobody uses votes as intended, and nobody will ever manage to change that.
Because of some of the COVID social programs, that chart should go back another 5 years, or so, to show a more accurate picture of the trend. I have no idea what it would look like, but my first thought is that 2022 is when the remaining COVID protections started being phased out which would, obviously, reduce the spending number. So, going back to 2019 and even 2018 would give us a better idea of the relative spend now versus then.
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This is a bad graph, it only shows 4 data points so it carries no context. Show it over 12 or 16 years otherwise the context is lost.
Social and economic funding went down? It’s almost as if the GOP obstructs all progress when a Dem administration is in power… anyone remember that infrastructure bill? Or student loan forgiveness? Or funding for abortion access?
Shame on you.
This chart is misleading. It just shows “discretionary” spending which leaves out Medicare Social Security, and Medicaid. (We spend considerably more on those programs than the entire military)
Once evil strongmen Putin and Xi are out of power, we can hopefully ratchet that down.
