Total spending in 1998 was:
$2,923 billion.

You work for the Brookings Institution, or maybe the American Enterprise Institute, and you are the best.
You know the rules.
  • The more money, the more votes.
  • The more votes, the more power.
To start, click the checkbox for your favorite government program below.


For year 1998, spending in billions.


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Education

“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State