$644 billion - Social Security $408 billion - Medicare $224 billion - Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) $360 billion - Unemployment/Welfare/Other mandatory spending $260 billion - Interest on National Debt
Discretionary spending: $1.21 trillion (+4.9%)
$515.4 billion - United States Department of Defense $145.2 billion(2008*) - Global War on Terror $70.4 billion - United States Department of Health and Human Services $45.4 billion - United States Department of Education $44.8 billion - United States Department of Veterans Affairs $38.5 billion - United States Department of Housing and Urban Development $38.3 billion - State and Other International Programs $37.6 billion - United States Department of Homeland Security $25.0 billion - United States Department of Energy $20.8 billion - United States Department of Agriculture $20.3 billion - United States Department of Justice $17.6 billion - National Aeronautics and Space Administration $12.5 billion - United States Department of the Treasury $11.5 billion - United States Department of Transportation $10.6 billion - United States Department of the Interior $10.5 billion - United States Department of Labor $8.4 billion - Social Security Administration $7.1 billion - United States Environmental Protection Agency $6.9 billion - National Science Foundation $6.3 billion - Judicial branch (United States federal courts) $4.7 billion - Legislative branch (United States Congress) $4.7 billion - United States Army Corps of Engineers $0.4 billion - Executive Office of the President $0.7 billion - Small Business Administration $7.2 billion - Other agencies $39.0 billion(2008*) - Other Off-budget Discretionary Spending
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