The pie chart is headlined ... provide some background on how federal spending works. Most federal spending can be categorized as discretionary or mandatory. The levels of discretionary spending ...

Interactive: What Is Non-Defense Discretionary Spending ... it must be a big slice of the federal spending pie full of programs that nobody likes, have no purpose, and could easily be cut back ...

It looks like a pie chart. I’ve been told ... the fraction that is classified as “discretionary” spending. That omits more than three-fifths of federal spending, including all of Social ...

Interactive chart shows what non-defense ... Click on the slices of the federal budget pie to see where non-defense discretionary dollars actually go. At the finest level of detail, you can ...

Yesterday I put up a chart showing the level of discretionary federal spending over the past 40 years. I did this because the news hook for it was the budget deal that Congress and President Trump ...

President Trump's budget proposal would cut 22% of non-defense discretionary spending ... up an increasingly large piece of the federal spending pie. A senior administration official said the ...

and the fractious House Freedom Caucus, Republicans in Congress have pledged to return federal discretionary spending to 2022 levels. As a practical matter, that would require cutting about $130 ...

House Republicans want to cut federal ... The charts above show how exempting big categories of spending would make the budget caps more draconian. Universal discretionary caps would cut spending ...

President Trump's budget proposal would cut 22% of non-defense discretionary spending ... up an increasingly large piece of the federal spending pie. A senior administration official said the ...