Question

What were the three largest expenditures in the federal budget in 2012? Together, how much of the budget did they make up? How much money was that?

Answer 1

Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security, and Defense were the three major expenditure for the 2012 budget of the United States.

The three expenditure made up just a little more than 60 percent of the budget.

The total cost for the three expenditure was about 2.4 trillion dollars.