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How does the government spend the nondefense discretionary part of the federal budget?

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The United States federal budget consists of mandatory expenditures (which include entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security), discretionary spendingfor defense, Cabinet Departments (e.g., United States Department of Justice) and agencies (e.g., Securities & Exchange Commission), and interest payments

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