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.
US Economy. Current U.S. government spending is $4.268 trillion. That's the federal budget for fiscal year 2018 (October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2018). It's 22 percent of economic output as measured by gross domestic product. Before the recession, the government kept Federal spending below 20 percent of GDP.