Comment by mym1990

8 hours ago

That, interest payments, UFC fight night flyovers, ballrooms, wars, tax cuts.

I would go as far as to say that the only things getting reduced funding are education and science research, but that’s just a hunch.

The massive increases to military spending would be a big part of it. Have to feed the war machine at all costs apparently.

  • all military is ~1/6 of ss and medicare. new military expenditures is a rounding error