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increases in the defense budget and steady spending on social welfare and entitlement programs.
The budget of United States Department of Defense is 530,100,000,000 dollars.
President Barack Obama sent Congress a proposed defense budget of $613.9 billion for fiscal 2013, Feb. 13. The request for the Department of Defense (DoD) includes $525.4 billion in discretionary budget authority to fund base defense programs and $88.5 billion to support Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), primarily in Afghanistan. Of the discretionary budget, $155.9 billion represents the Department of the Navy's budget request. This is a decrease of $1.4 billion from last year's baseline appropriation.
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The budget of Office of Special Education Programs is 32,000,000,000 dollars.
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The defense budget.
The Federal budget increased tremendously after the Great Society programs became law.
Throughout the Cold War, the largest expenditure by the US government was the various welfare programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. By the late 1980s, these services constituted nearly half of the entire budget. However, most people do not consider welfare programs when discussing the budget since those expenditures are outside of the discretion of Congress; they have to be spent. Of the discretionary spending, the defense budget was certainly the largest single expenditure.