As Musk and his critics toss around statistics, here are some points to know about how the government spends $6.8 trillion taxpayer money. A separate category of spending covers discretionary ...

About 60% of federal spending is mandatory — appropriations are automatic. About 27% is discretionary ... On March 12, U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., said most federal government spending ...

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) claimed his experience negotiating the Big Beautiful Bill Act leads him to believe it will take ...

9/11 and Afghanistan are classic examples of blowback, a term the CIA first used in 1954 to explain the unintended consequence of a covert operation, in that case the U.S.’s overthrow of the ...

Mandatory and discretionary spending are not equal in size ... The other issue is that the U.S. economy could lose enough tax revenue from the tariffs’ impacts to cut into or wipe out the ...