Thanks for the graph. I hope you will keep it handy and insert it regularly in threads on this topic. People who say entitlements are off limits — this would include President Trump — are left with cutting spending in defense, which has been shorted for years and needs to be increased, or the bottom three categories: education, transportation and “other.” Most of people who speechify about wasteful government spending pick as examples a couple of chump change accounts from “other.” This is utterly irrelevant to the deficit crisis. Either we reform entitlements, or we go bankrupt, with or without an interlude of runaway inflation, as soon as interest rates rise back to historic levels.
So under the outlays by function, where are the billions spent on illegal aliens? Probably as much as Social Security costs.
One can look at the chart and say where do you cut?
But remember that EVERY section of government does charity and social agenda. That can be cut.