AEI’s Mark Perry is featuring a colorful presentation of the U.S. government’s current fiscal year budget. It’s just coincidental that the app produces the following Easter-inspired color scheme when you select for “Total” spending and “Agency” for the bubble color:
Looking at the data, we’ll bet you didn’t know that the Department of Defense is only the third largest “egg” in the federal government’s basket of spending, after both Social Security and the biggest debt and deficit contributor, the Department of Health and Human Services!
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