I’d like to see what the numbers were for 2007, especially HHS and HUD.
Exactly
Political debate over tax and budget policy in a VACUUM of data is irresponsible at best and if done on purpose, pure malfeasance.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals
Tables 4.1. and 4.2. HHS is growing. Probably due in part to Obamacare subsidies, medic aid expansion l000and an increasing number of Baby Boomers moving onto Medicare.