--with no specifics on how to eliminate the $680B deficit. The reason he (yeah and all the candidates with him) won't say anything is because then they'd have to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Welfare--
2013 actual (In billions of dollars) | |
National defense | 633,385 |
Nondefense: | |
Agriculture | 2 |
International affairs ................................ | 633 |
Transportation ....................................... | 1,441 |
Education, training, employment, and social services . | 44,226 |
Health ............................................... | 21,531 |
Medicare ............................................. | 583,798 |
Income security ...................................... | 430,653 |
Social security ...................................... | 807,249 |
Veterans benefits and services ....................... | 121,557 |
Administration of justice ............................ | 671 |
Grants to State and local governments for individuals | 378,217 |
All other grants | 167,954 |
Net Interest | 220,885 |
All other | 135,188 |
Undistributed offsetting receipts | -92,785 |
Total nondefense | 2,821,220 |
Total outlays | 3,454,605 |
Receipts | 2,775,103 |
Deficit | -679,502 |
--as cutting anything else wouldn't make enough of a dent.
WTF is “Internal Affairs”?