In January 1918, some ten months before the end of World War I, US President Woodrow Wilson had written a list of proposed war aims which he called the Fourteen Points..
Today, discretionary spending makes up less than 40 percent of the entire budget. Net Interest-Net interest is the only part of future spending that cannot be reduced by legislative action because it is money that must be paid to service the U.S. debt.
Definition: The prime interest rate is what U.S. banks charge their best customers. It's usually the best loan rate available to non-banks. It's also called the prime lending rate, the prime rate, or even just prime. Banks base the prime rate on the federal funds rate. That's the rate banks charge each other for special overnight loans. They borrow fed funds from each other to fulfill the Federal reserve requirement each night. For example, o December 15, 2016 the Federal Open Market Committee raised this rate to 0.75 percent.